From: Aaron Esau <aaron1esau@gmail.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com, jic23@kernel.org,
berrange@redhat.com, Aaron Esau <aaron1esau@gmail.com>,
qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] hw/cxl: fix OOB read in Get Log command due to incorrect pointer arithmetic
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:07:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260416200702.2374709-2-git@aaronesau.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260416200702.2374709-1-git@aaronesau.com>
From: Aaron Esau <aaron1esau@gmail.com>
The memmove in cmd_logs_get_log() uses cci->cel_log + get_log->offset,
which performs pointer arithmetic in units of sizeof(struct cel_log)
(4 bytes per element). However, per CXL r3.1 Section 8.2.9.5.2, the
offset field is a byte offset into the log.
The existing bounds check correctly treats offset as a byte value:
(uint64_t)get_log->offset + get_log->length >= sizeof(cci->cel_log)
But the memmove reads from a position that is get_log->offset *
sizeof(cel_log[0]) bytes past the start, which can be well beyond the
array even when the bounds check passes. For example, offset=65536 and
length=512 passes the check (66048 < sizeof(cel_log)) but the memmove
reads from byte 262144 past cel_log, leaking adjacent heap data.
Fix by casting to uint8_t * before adding the byte offset, matching the
semantics assumed by the bounds check.
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Fixes: 056172691b ("hw/cxl/device: Add log commands (8.2.9.4) + CEL")
Reported-by: Aaron Esau <aaron1esau@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Aaron Esau <aaron1esau@gmail.com>
---
hw/cxl/cxl-mailbox-utils.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/hw/cxl/cxl-mailbox-utils.c b/hw/cxl/cxl-mailbox-utils.c
index d8ba7e8625..0adf1e72c8 100644
--- a/hw/cxl/cxl-mailbox-utils.c
+++ b/hw/cxl/cxl-mailbox-utils.c
@@ -1217,7 +1217,8 @@ static CXLRetCode cmd_logs_get_log(const struct cxl_cmd *cmd,
/* Store off everything to local variables so we can wipe out the payload */
*len_out = get_log->length;
- memmove(payload_out, cci->cel_log + get_log->offset, get_log->length);
+ memmove(payload_out, (uint8_t *)cci->cel_log + get_log->offset,
+ get_log->length);
return CXL_MBOX_SUCCESS;
}
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-16 22:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-16 20:07 [PATCH 0/2] hw/cxl: Fix two OOB access bugs in CXL mailbox commands Aaron Esau
2026-04-16 20:07 ` Aaron Esau [this message]
2026-05-13 6:35 ` [PATCH 1/2] hw/cxl: fix OOB read in Get Log command due to incorrect pointer arithmetic Michael Tokarev
2026-05-13 21:41 ` Aaron Esau
2026-04-16 20:07 ` [PATCH 2/2] hw/cxl: add missing bounds checks in Set Feature for PPR and sparing Aaron Esau
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