From: srini@kernel.org
To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>,
Srinivas Kandagatla <srini@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 12/14] nvmem: brcm_nvram: reject empty NVRAM partition
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:46:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260729094647.111468-13-srini@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260729094647.111468-1-srini@kernel.org>
From: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
If the partition is completely erased (all padding bytes), the trimming
loop reduces data_len to 0. devm_kzalloc(dev, 0, GFP_KERNEL) returns
ZERO_SIZE_PTR ((void *)16), which is non-NULL and bypasses the NULL
check. The subsequent cast of priv->data to struct brcm_nvram_header *
and dereference of header->magic causes a page fault on address 0x10.
Reject data_len smaller than the header before allocating.
Assisted-by: opencode:big-pickle
Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srini@kernel.org>
---
drivers/nvmem/brcm_nvram.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/nvmem/brcm_nvram.c b/drivers/nvmem/brcm_nvram.c
index aaa6537798bf..c3b4282aa164 100644
--- a/drivers/nvmem/brcm_nvram.c
+++ b/drivers/nvmem/brcm_nvram.c
@@ -84,6 +84,11 @@ static int brcm_nvram_copy_data(struct brcm_nvram *priv, struct platform_device
}
WARN(priv->data_len > SZ_128K, "Unexpected (big) NVRAM size: %zu B\n", priv->data_len);
+ if (priv->data_len < sizeof(struct brcm_nvram_header)) {
+ dev_err(priv->dev, "NVRAM data too small (%zu)\n", priv->data_len);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
priv->data = devm_kzalloc(priv->dev, priv->data_len, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!priv->data)
return -ENOMEM;
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-29 9:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-29 9:46 [PATCH 00/14] nvmem: updates for 7.3 srini
2026-07-29 9:46 ` [PATCH 01/14] nvmem: remove unused field from struct nvmem_device srini
2026-07-29 9:46 ` [PATCH 02/14] nvmem: return -EOPNOTSUPP to in-kernel users on missing callbacks srini
2026-07-29 9:46 ` [PATCH 03/14] nvmem: check the return value of gpiod_set_value_cansleep() srini
2026-07-29 9:46 ` [PATCH 04/14] nvmem: simplify locking with guard() srini
2026-07-29 9:46 ` [PATCH 05/14] nvmem: remove unneeded __nvmem_device_put() srini
2026-07-29 9:46 ` [PATCH 06/14] nvmem: split out the reg_read/write() callbacks out of struct nvmem_device srini
2026-07-29 9:46 ` [PATCH 07/14] nvmem: simplify nvmem_sysfs_remove_compat() srini
2026-07-29 9:46 ` [PATCH 08/14] nvmem: remove duplicated reference counting srini
2026-07-29 9:46 ` [PATCH 09/14] nvmem: protect nvmem_device::ops with SRCU srini
2026-07-29 9:46 ` [PATCH 10/14] eeprom: move nvmem EEPROM drivers to drivers/nvmem/ srini
2026-07-29 9:46 ` [PATCH 11/14] nvmem: airoha: add ARM64 dependency srini
2026-07-29 9:46 ` srini [this message]
2026-07-29 9:46 ` [PATCH 13/14] nvmem: brcm_nvram: fix out-of-bounds access on malformed flash data srini
2026-07-29 9:46 ` [PATCH 14/14] dt-bindings: nvmem: qfprom: Add ipq5210 & ipq9650 compatible srini
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