Re: [PATCH 2/4] gpu: nova-core: gsp: Fix length of received messages

[Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@gmail.com>]

On 12.12.25 08:59, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
>> On Nov 22, 2025, at 12:00 AM, Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com> wrote:
>>
>> The size of messages' payload is miscalculated, leading to extra data
>> passed to the message handler. While this is not a problem with our
>> current set of commands, others with a variable-length payload may
>> misbehave. Fix this.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/cmdq.rs | 11 +++++++----
>> drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/fw.rs   |  2 +-
>> 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/cmdq.rs b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/cmdq.rs
>> index 6f946d14868a..dab73377c526 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/cmdq.rs
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/cmdq.rs
>> @@ -588,21 +588,24 @@ fn wait_for_msg(&self, timeout: Delta) -> Result<GspMessage<'_>> {
>>             header.length(),
>>         );
>>
>> +        // The length of the message that follows the header.
>> +        let msg_length = header.length() - size_of::<GspMsgElement>();
> 
> Is this immune to under flow without one of the checked subtraction wrappers? Either way, we should not tolerate the underflow I think. Which means it can panic when the rust overflow checks are enabled. Since the header length comes from firmware, this cannot be guaranteed to not underflow in the event of a malformed message.

Would this be a possible use case for the untrusted data proposal

https://lwn.net/Articles/1034603/

?

Cheers

Dirk