From: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Akiva Goldberger <agoldberger@nvidia.com>,
Gal Pressman <gal@nvidia.com>, Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>, Mark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com>,
Moshe Shemesh <moshe@nvidia.com>,
Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>, Shay Drori <shayd@nvidia.com>,
Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] net/mlx5: FW tracer, clamp firmware-reported num_string_db
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:25:43 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260717072543.1241094-1-tariqt@nvidia.com> (raw)
From: Akiva Goldberger <agoldberger@nvidia.com>
mlx5_query_mtrc_caps() reads num_string_db from the MTRC capabilities
register and uses it directly as a loop bound to populate the fixed-size
base_address_out[STRINGS_DB_SECTIONS_NUM] and
size_out[STRINGS_DB_SECTIONS_NUM] arrays in the tracer's str_db
structure (STRINGS_DB_SECTIONS_NUM == 8).
The field is 4 bits wide, so firmware can report up to 15. A value
greater than STRINGS_DB_SECTIONS_NUM makes the loop write past the end
of those arrays, corrupting adjacent fields of the fw_tracer structure
on the kernel heap. Clamp the firmware-reported value before it is used.
Fixes: f53aaa31cce7 ("net/mlx5: FW tracer, implement tracer logic")
Signed-off-by: Akiva Goldberger <agoldberger@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Shay Drori <shayd@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/diag/fw_tracer.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/diag/fw_tracer.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/diag/fw_tracer.c
index adcc73e2a5b3..404736c46adf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/diag/fw_tracer.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/diag/fw_tracer.c
@@ -64,6 +64,13 @@ static int mlx5_query_mtrc_caps(struct mlx5_fw_tracer *tracer)
tracer->str_db.num_string_trace =
MLX5_GET(mtrc_cap, out, num_string_trace);
tracer->str_db.num_string_db = MLX5_GET(mtrc_cap, out, num_string_db);
+ if (tracer->str_db.num_string_db > STRINGS_DB_SECTIONS_NUM) {
+ mlx5_core_warn(dev,
+ "FWTracer: Firmware reports num_string_db (%u) > (%u), clamping\n",
+ tracer->str_db.num_string_db,
+ STRINGS_DB_SECTIONS_NUM);
+ tracer->str_db.num_string_db = STRINGS_DB_SECTIONS_NUM;
+ }
tracer->owner = !!MLX5_GET(mtrc_cap, out, trace_owner);
tracer->str_db.loaded = false;
base-commit: 3f1f755366687d051174739fb99f7d560202f60b
--
2.44.0
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