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From: Richard Cheng <icheng@nvidia.com>
To: dave@stgolabs.net, jic23@kernel.org, dave.jiang@intel.com,
	alison.schofield@intel.com, vishal.l.verma@intel.com,
	djbw@kernel.org, danwilliams@nvidia.com
Cc: iweiny@kernel.org, ming.li@zohomail.com, kobak@nvidia.com,
	kaihengf@nvidia.com, kees@kernel.org, newtonl@nvidia.com,
	kristinc@nvidia.com, mochs@nvidia.com, linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Richard Cheng <icheng@nvidia.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] cxl/features: Reject Get Feature count larger than the output buffer
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:47:37 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260624134737.49166-1-icheng@nvidia.com> (raw)

cxlctl_get_feature() sizes its output buffer from the user's
fwctl_rpc.out_len, but the device is told to write
cxl_mbox_get_feat_in.count bytes into rpc_out->payload, which is a
separate user-controlled value. Nothing bounds count against out_len, so
a small out_len with a large count overflows the kvzalloc()'d buffer.
A heap OOB write reachable from FWCTL_RPC.

Reject requests where count exceeds the available payload room, before
allocating.

Fixes: 5908f3ed6dc2 ("cxl: Add support to handle user feature commands for get feature")
Reviewed-by: Kai-Heng Feng <kaihengf@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Koba Ko <kobak@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Cheng <icheng@nvidia.com>
---
Changelog:

v1 -> v2:
    - Drop the reproducer and trim the KASAN splat in the commit message
    - Sent the reproducer as a regression test in ndctl separately.

Best regards,
Richard Cheng
---
 drivers/cxl/core/features.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/cxl/core/features.c b/drivers/cxl/core/features.c
index 85185af46b72..9c714ee42a41 100644
--- a/drivers/cxl/core/features.c
+++ b/drivers/cxl/core/features.c
@@ -471,6 +471,10 @@ static void *cxlctl_get_feature(struct cxl_features_state *cxlfs,
 	if (!count)
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 
+	if (out_size < offsetof(struct fwctl_rpc_cxl_out, payload) ||
+	    count > out_size - offsetof(struct fwctl_rpc_cxl_out, payload))
+		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+
 	struct fwctl_rpc_cxl_out *rpc_out __free(kvfree) =
 		kvzalloc(out_size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!rpc_out)

base-commit: ef0c9f75a19532d7675384708fc8621e10850104
-- 
2.43.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-06-24 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-24 13:47 Richard Cheng [this message]
2026-06-24 20:54 ` [PATCH v2] cxl/features: Reject Get Feature count larger than the output buffer Alison Schofield
2026-06-24 21:10   ` Alison Schofield
2026-06-26  7:27     ` Richard Cheng
2026-06-26 16:17       ` Dave Jiang
2026-06-29  2:12         ` Richard Cheng

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