From: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
To: "Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: duziming <duziming2@huawei.com>,
bhelgaas@google.com, jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org, chrisw@redhat.com,
alex.williamson@redhat.com, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
liuyongqiang13@huawei.com,
"Krzysztof Wilczyński" <kwilczynski@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] PCI: Prevent overflow in proc_bus_pci_write()
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2025 11:04:34 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251231170434.GA160560@bhelgaas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b5cc94da-23e7-0185-0b5a-b35125234af4@linux.intel.com>
On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 11:31:47AM +0200, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Dec 2025, duziming wrote:
> > 在 2025/12/30 2:07, Bjorn Helgaas 写道:
> > > [+cc Krzysztof; I thought we looked at this long ago?]
> > >
> > > On Wed, Dec 24, 2025 at 05:27:18PM +0800, Ziming Du wrote:
> > > > From: Yongqiang Liu <liuyongqiang13@huawei.com>
> > > >
> > > > When the value of ppos over the INT_MAX, the pos is over set to a negtive
> > > > value which will be passed to get_user() or pci_user_write_config_dword().
> > > > Unexpected behavior such as a softlock will happen as follows:
> > > s/negtive/negative/
> > > s/softlock/soft lockup/ to match message below
> > Thanks for pointing out the ambiguous parts.
> > > s/ppos/pos/ (or fix this to refer to "*ppos", which I think is what
> > > you're referring to)
> > >
> > > I guess the point is that proc_bus_pci_write() takes a "loff_t *ppos",
> > > loff_t is a signed type, and negative read/write offsets are invalid.
> >
> > Actually, the *loff_t *ppos *passed in is not a negative value. The root cause
> > of the issue
> >
> > lies in the cast *int* *pos = *ppos*. When the value of **ppos* over the
> > INT_MAX, the pos is over set
> >
> > to a negative value. This negative *pos* then propagates through subsequent
> > logic, leading to the observed errors.
> >
> > > If this is easily reproducible with "dd" or similar, could maybe
> > > include a sample command line?
> >
> > We reproduced the issue using the following POC:
> >
> > #include <stdio.h>
> >
> > #include <string.h>
> > #include <unistd.h>
> > #include <fcntl.h>
> > #include <sys/uio.h>
> >
> > int main() {
> > int fd = open("/proc/bus/pci/00/02.0", O_RDWR);
> > if (fd < 0) {
> > perror("open failed");
> > return 1;
> > }
> > char data[] = "926b7719201054f37a1d9d391e862c";
> > off_t offset = 0x80800001;
> > struct iovec iov = {
> > .iov_base = data,
> > .iov_len = 0xf
> > };
> > pwritev(fd, &iov, 1, offset);
> > return 0;
> > }
> >
> > > > watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 130s! [syz.3.109:3444]
> > > > RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x17/0x30
> > > > Call Trace:
> > > > <TASK>
> > > > pci_user_write_config_dword+0x126/0x1f0
> > > > proc_bus_pci_write+0x273/0x470
> > > > proc_reg_write+0x1b6/0x280
> > > > do_iter_write+0x48e/0x790
> > > > vfs_writev+0x125/0x4a0
> > > > __x64_sys_pwritev+0x1e2/0x2a0
> > > > do_syscall_64+0x59/0x110
> > > > entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x78/0xe2
> > > >
> > > > Fix this by add check for the pos.
> > > >
> > > > Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
> > > > Signed-off-by: Yongqiang Liu <liuyongqiang13@huawei.com>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Ziming Du <duziming2@huawei.com>
> > > > ---
> > > > drivers/pci/proc.c | 2 +-
> > > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/pci/proc.c b/drivers/pci/proc.c
> > > > index 9348a0fb8084..200d42feafd8 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/pci/proc.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/pci/proc.c
> > > > @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ static ssize_t proc_bus_pci_write(struct file *file,
> > > > const char __user *buf,
> > > > if (ret)
> > > > return ret;
> > > > - if (pos >= size)
> > > > + if (pos >= size || pos < 0)
> > > > return 0;
> > > I see a few similar cases that look like this; maybe we should do the
> > > same?
> > >
> > > if (pos < 0)
> > > return -EINVAL;
> > >
> > > Looks like proc_bus_pci_read() has the same issue?
> >
> > proc_bus_pci_read() may also trigger similar issue as mentioned by Ilpo
> > Järvinen in
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/e5a91378-4a41-32fb-00c6-2810084581bd@linux.intel.com/
> >
> > However, it does not result in an overflow to a negative number.
>
> Why does the cast has to happen first here?
>
> This would ensure _correctness_ without any false alignment issues for
> large numbers:
>
> int pos;
> int size = dev->cfg_size;
>
> ...
> if (*ppos > INT_MAX)
Isn't *ppos a signed quantity? If so, wouldn't we want to check for
"*ppos < 0"?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-31 17:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-24 9:27 [PATCH v2 0/3] Miscellaneous fixes for pci subsystem Ziming Du
2025-12-24 9:27 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] PCI/sysfs: Fix null pointer dereference during hotplug Ziming Du
2025-12-29 17:31 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2025-12-30 3:40 ` duziming
2025-12-24 9:27 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] PCI: Prevent overflow in proc_bus_pci_write() Ziming Du
2025-12-29 18:07 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2025-12-30 8:20 ` duziming
2025-12-31 9:31 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2025-12-31 17:04 ` Bjorn Helgaas [this message]
2026-01-04 7:17 ` duziming
2025-12-24 9:27 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] PCI/sysfs: Prohibit unaligned access to I/O port on non-x86 Ziming Du
2025-12-29 9:36 ` Ilpo Järvinen
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