From: Mark Harris <mark.hsj@gmail.com>
To: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>,
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>, Mark Harris <mark.hsj@gmail.com>,
Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>, Michael Ellerman <mpe@kernel.org>,
linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] riscv: hwprobe: Avoid uninitialized read in hwprobe_get_cpus()
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:30:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260714003056.73707-1-mark.hsj@gmail.com> (raw)
When cpusetsize < cpumask_size(), hwprobe_get_cpus() did not fully
initialize its copy of the cpu mask, which could cause non-deterministic
results from the riscv_hwprobe syscall on a system with more than 8 CPUs
when the supplied cpu mask is empty. Address this by fully initializing
the cpu mask.
Fixes: e178bf146e4b ("RISC-V: hwprobe: Introduce which-cpus flag")
Signed-off-by: Mark Harris <mark.hsj@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@kernel.org>
---
v2: Add Fixes: and Reviewed-by: tags
arch/riscv/kernel/sys_hwprobe.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/sys_hwprobe.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/sys_hwprobe.c
index 1659d31fd288..caf6762427c8 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/sys_hwprobe.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/sys_hwprobe.c
@@ -450,6 +450,7 @@ static int hwprobe_get_cpus(struct riscv_hwprobe __user *pairs,
if (cpusetsize > cpumask_size())
cpusetsize = cpumask_size();
+ cpumask_clear(&cpus);
ret = copy_from_user(&cpus, cpus_user, cpusetsize);
if (ret)
return -EFAULT;
--
2.55.0
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