From: Benson Leung <bleung@google.com>
To: Maoyi Xie <maoyixie.tju@gmail.com>
Cc: Benson Leung <bleung@chromium.org>,
Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@kernel.org>,
Abhishek Pandit-Subedi <abhishekpandit@chromium.org>,
Jameson Thies <jthies@google.com>,
Andrei Kuchynski <akuchynski@chromium.org>,
Guenter Roeck <groeck@chromium.org>,
Kaixuan Li <kaixuan.li@ntu.edu.sg>,
chrome-platform@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform/chrome: cros_ec_typec: reject out-of-bounds PD cap count
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:23:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ajwgjQQsuj1AYJXz@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <178229037114.3009621.14045345257767446805@maoyixie.com>
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On Wed, Jun 24, 2026 at 04:39:31PM +0800, Maoyi Xie wrote:
> cros_typec_register_partner_pdos() copies the partner PDOs from the EC
> TYPEC_STATUS response into the fixed caps_desc.pdo[PDO_MAX_OBJECTS] array.
>
> memcpy(caps_desc.pdo, resp->source_cap_pdos,
> sizeof(u32) * resp->source_cap_count);
> ...
> memcpy(caps_desc.pdo, resp->sink_cap_pdos,
> sizeof(u32) * resp->sink_cap_count);
>
> PDO_MAX_OBJECTS is 7. source_cap_count and sink_cap_count are u8 fields
> from the EC, and the only check is that they are not both zero. If either
> is larger than 7, the memcpy writes past the end of the array on the stack.
> A count of 255 overflows it by about 1 KB.
>
> The ChromeOS EC firmware caps these counts today, so a compliant setup
> does not hit this. The kernel should still validate the values from the EC
> rather than trust them.
>
> Validate the counts in cros_typec_handle_status() right after the
> EC_CMD_TYPEC_STATUS command returns, and return early if either one is
> above PDO_MAX_OBJECTS.
>
> Fixes: 348a2e8c93d3 ("platform/chrome: cros_ec_typec: Register partner PDOs")
> Suggested-by: Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@kernel.org>
> Co-developed-by: Kaixuan Li <kaixuan.li@ntu.edu.sg>
> Signed-off-by: Kaixuan Li <kaixuan.li@ntu.edu.sg>
> Signed-off-by: Maoyi Xie <maoyixie.tju@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Benson Leung <bleung@chromium.org>
> ---
> drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_typec.c | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_typec.c b/drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_typec.c
> index c0806c562bb9..3ae9b35b7d85 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_typec.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_typec.c
> @@ -1158,6 +1158,12 @@ static void cros_typec_handle_status(struct cros_typec_data *typec, int port_num
> return;
> }
>
> + if (resp.source_cap_count > PDO_MAX_OBJECTS ||
> + resp.sink_cap_count > PDO_MAX_OBJECTS) {
> + dev_warn(typec->dev, "Invalid PDO count from EC, port: %d\n", port_num);
> + return;
> + }
> +
> /* If we got a hard reset, unregister everything and return. */
> if (resp.events & PD_STATUS_EVENT_HARD_RESET) {
> cros_typec_remove_partner(typec, port_num);
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-24 18:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-24 8:39 [PATCH] platform/chrome: cros_ec_typec: reject out-of-bounds PD cap count Maoyi Xie
2026-06-24 12:45 ` Andrei Kuchynski
2026-06-24 18:23 ` Benson Leung [this message]
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