* [PATCH v2] PCI/proc: check user access return values in proc_bus_pci_{read,write}()
@ 2026-05-04 2:22 Deepanshu Kartikey
2026-05-04 2:44 ` sashiko-bot
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Deepanshu Kartikey @ 2026-05-04 2:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: bhelgaas, kw
Cc: linux-pci, linux-kernel, Deepanshu Kartikey,
syzbot+c7604c9fdd7580cca4e0
proc_bus_pci_write() ignores the return value of __get_user(). On a
faulting user pointer the extable fixup zeros the destination, and the
function writes those zeros to PCI configuration space.
syzbot triggers this with writev()-ing a NULL iov_base to
/proc/bus/pci/00/03.0 (the virtio-blk controller in the syzkaller VM):
zero is written to the Command register, clearing Bus Master Enable,
and the disk stops responding. In-flight journal writes never complete
and jbd2 hangs in wait_on_buffer() indefinitely:
INFO: task jbd2/sda1-8 blocked in I/O wait for more than 143 seconds.
__wait_on_buffer fs/buffer.c:123
jbd2_journal_commit_transaction+0x388a/0x6870 fs/jbd2/commit.c:837
kjournald2 fs/jbd2/journal.c:201
proc_bus_pci_read() has the symmetric problem with __put_user(): a
faulting user pointer silently drops config-space data and returns
success.
Switch both functions to get_user()/put_user(), which combine the
access_ok() check with the load/store and return -EFAULT on failure.
The up-front access_ok() can be removed accordingly. On error, jump to
a common label that releases the runtime-PM reference and returns
-EFAULT.
Reported-by: syzbot+c7604c9fdd7580cca4e0@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=c7604c9fdd7580cca4e0
Tested-by: syzbot+c7604c9fdd7580cca4e0@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Use get_user()/put_user() and drop access_ok() (Krzysztof)
- Rename label to err: per kernel convention (Krzysztof)
- Simplify error path to release runtime-PM and return -EFAULT (Krzysztof)
- Apply the same fix to proc_bus_pci_read() (Krzysztof)
---
drivers/pci/proc.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/pci/proc.c b/drivers/pci/proc.c
index ce36e35681e8..8e624d829840 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/proc.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/proc.c
@@ -53,15 +53,13 @@ static ssize_t proc_bus_pci_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
nbytes = size - pos;
cnt = nbytes;
- if (!access_ok(buf, cnt))
- return -EINVAL;
-
pci_config_pm_runtime_get(dev);
if ((pos & 1) && cnt) {
unsigned char val;
pci_user_read_config_byte(dev, pos, &val);
- __put_user(val, buf);
+ if (put_user(val, buf))
+ goto err;
buf++;
pos++;
cnt--;
@@ -70,7 +68,8 @@ static ssize_t proc_bus_pci_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
if ((pos & 3) && cnt > 2) {
unsigned short val;
pci_user_read_config_word(dev, pos, &val);
- __put_user(cpu_to_le16(val), (__le16 __user *) buf);
+ if (put_user(cpu_to_le16(val), (__le16 __user *) buf))
+ goto err;
buf += 2;
pos += 2;
cnt -= 2;
@@ -79,7 +78,8 @@ static ssize_t proc_bus_pci_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
while (cnt >= 4) {
unsigned int val;
pci_user_read_config_dword(dev, pos, &val);
- __put_user(cpu_to_le32(val), (__le32 __user *) buf);
+ if (put_user(cpu_to_le32(val), (__le32 __user *) buf))
+ goto err;
buf += 4;
pos += 4;
cnt -= 4;
@@ -89,7 +89,8 @@ static ssize_t proc_bus_pci_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
if (cnt >= 2) {
unsigned short val;
pci_user_read_config_word(dev, pos, &val);
- __put_user(cpu_to_le16(val), (__le16 __user *) buf);
+ if (put_user(cpu_to_le16(val), (__le16 __user *) buf))
+ goto err;
buf += 2;
pos += 2;
cnt -= 2;
@@ -98,7 +99,8 @@ static ssize_t proc_bus_pci_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
if (cnt) {
unsigned char val;
pci_user_read_config_byte(dev, pos, &val);
- __put_user(val, buf);
+ if (put_user(val, buf))
+ goto err;
pos++;
}
@@ -106,6 +108,10 @@ static ssize_t proc_bus_pci_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
*ppos = pos;
return nbytes;
+
+err:
+ pci_config_pm_runtime_put(dev);
+ return -EFAULT;
}
static ssize_t proc_bus_pci_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
@@ -129,14 +135,12 @@ static ssize_t proc_bus_pci_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
nbytes = size - pos;
cnt = nbytes;
- if (!access_ok(buf, cnt))
- return -EINVAL;
-
pci_config_pm_runtime_get(dev);
if ((pos & 1) && cnt) {
unsigned char val;
- __get_user(val, buf);
+ if (get_user(val, buf))
+ goto err;
pci_user_write_config_byte(dev, pos, val);
buf++;
pos++;
@@ -145,7 +149,8 @@ static ssize_t proc_bus_pci_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
if ((pos & 3) && cnt > 2) {
__le16 val;
- __get_user(val, (__le16 __user *) buf);
+ if (get_user(val, (__le16 __user *) buf))
+ goto err;
pci_user_write_config_word(dev, pos, le16_to_cpu(val));
buf += 2;
pos += 2;
@@ -154,7 +159,8 @@ static ssize_t proc_bus_pci_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
while (cnt >= 4) {
__le32 val;
- __get_user(val, (__le32 __user *) buf);
+ if (get_user(val, (__le32 __user *) buf))
+ goto err;
pci_user_write_config_dword(dev, pos, le32_to_cpu(val));
buf += 4;
pos += 4;
@@ -163,7 +169,8 @@ static ssize_t proc_bus_pci_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
if (cnt >= 2) {
__le16 val;
- __get_user(val, (__le16 __user *) buf);
+ if (get_user(val, (__le16 __user *) buf))
+ goto err;
pci_user_write_config_word(dev, pos, le16_to_cpu(val));
buf += 2;
pos += 2;
@@ -172,7 +179,8 @@ static ssize_t proc_bus_pci_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
if (cnt) {
unsigned char val;
- __get_user(val, buf);
+ if (get_user(val, buf))
+ goto err;
pci_user_write_config_byte(dev, pos, val);
pos++;
}
@@ -182,6 +190,10 @@ static ssize_t proc_bus_pci_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
*ppos = pos;
i_size_write(ino, dev->cfg_size);
return nbytes;
+
+err:
+ pci_config_pm_runtime_put(dev);
+ return -EFAULT;
}
#ifdef HAVE_PCI_MMAP
--
2.43.0
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* Re: [PATCH v2] PCI/proc: check user access return values in proc_bus_pci_{read,write}()
2026-05-04 2:22 [PATCH v2] PCI/proc: check user access return values in proc_bus_pci_{read,write}() Deepanshu Kartikey
@ 2026-05-04 2:44 ` sashiko-bot
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: sashiko-bot @ 2026-05-04 2:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Deepanshu Kartikey; +Cc: linux-pci
Thank you for your contribution! Sashiko AI review found 2 potential issue(s) to consider:
- [High] Integer truncation in proc_bus_pci_write allows negative offsets to bypass bounds checks, leading to out-of-bounds PCI accesses and soft lockups.
- [Medium] Error handling discards partial transfers, violating POSIX semantics and risking unintended side effects on retry.
--
commit e7bdf9d788abd98223b783ee67cefeac2bfdde52
Author: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
PCI/proc: check user access return values in proc_bus_pci_{read,write}()
This commit replaces __get_user() and __put_user() with get_user() and
put_user() to check for user access faults during PCI config space reads
and writes. It removes the upfront access_ok() check and adds an error
path to release the runtime PM reference and return -EFAULT on failure.
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/proc.c b/drivers/pci/proc.c
> index ce36e35681e8..8e624d829840 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/proc.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/proc.c
> @@ -53,15 +53,13 @@ static ssize_t proc_bus_pci_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
> nbytes = size - pos;
> cnt = nbytes;
>
> - if (!access_ok(buf, cnt))
> - return -EINVAL;
> -
> pci_config_pm_runtime_get(dev);
>
> if ((pos & 1) && cnt) {
> unsigned char val;
> pci_user_read_config_byte(dev, pos, &val);
> - __put_user(val, buf);
> + if (put_user(val, buf))
> + goto err;
> buf++;
> pos++;
> cnt--;
> @@ -70,7 +68,8 @@ static ssize_t proc_bus_pci_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
> if ((pos & 3) && cnt > 2) {
> unsigned short val;
> pci_user_read_config_word(dev, pos, &val);
> - __put_user(cpu_to_le16(val), (__le16 __user *) buf);
> + if (put_user(cpu_to_le16(val), (__le16 __user *) buf))
> + goto err;
If a fault happens during this put_user() call, some bytes may have already
been successfully transferred by the previous call. Unconditionally jumping
to the err label and returning -EFAULT discards this partial progress and
fails to update *ppos.
Since configuration registers can be stateful, such as Write-1-to-Clear
bits, could userspace retrying the entire operation cause unintended side
effects?
If data has been successfully processed prior to a fault, should the function
update the file offset and return the number of bytes transferred instead?
[ ... ]
> @@ -106,6 +108,10 @@ static ssize_t proc_bus_pci_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
>
> *ppos = pos;
> return nbytes;
> +
> +err:
> + pci_config_pm_runtime_put(dev);
> + return -EFAULT;
> }
>
> static ssize_t proc_bus_pci_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
This issue isn't introduced by the patch, but does this function truncate
*ppos? Looking at the full function:
static ssize_t proc_bus_pci_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
size_t nbytes, loff_t *ppos)
{
...
int pos = *ppos;
...
If a large positive offset is passed, such as 2294967296, the assignment to
the 32-bit int pos would truncate it to a negative value.
This bypasses the if (pos >= size) check. When checking pos + nbytes > size,
pos is promoted to a 64-bit size_t and sign-extends to a huge value, making
the condition true. nbytes is then calculated as size - pos, resulting in a
massive positive integer for cnt.
[ ... ]
> @@ -154,7 +159,8 @@ static ssize_t proc_bus_pci_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
>
> while (cnt >= 4) {
> __le32 val;
> - __get_user(val, (__le32 __user *) buf);
> + if (get_user(val, (__le32 __user *) buf))
> + goto err;
> pci_user_write_config_dword(dev, pos, le32_to_cpu(val));
> buf += 4;
> pos += 4;
> cnt -= 4;
The while (cnt >= 4) loop would then execute hundreds of millions of times,
passing a negative offset to the configuration accessor functions.
Since proc_bus_pci_write() lacks a cond_resched() call in this loop, could
this trigger a soft lockup?
--
Sashiko AI review · https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260504022231.15501-1-kartikey406@gmail.com?part=1
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