* [PATCH] ibmasm: validate MFA offset against BAR0 size
@ 2026-03-08 6:04 Tyllis Xu
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From: Tyllis Xu @ 2026-03-08 6:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: arnd, gregkh; +Cc: linux-kernel, stable, ychen, danisjiang, Tyllis Xu
ibmasm_interrupt_handler() and ibmasm_send_i2o_message() dereference an
MMIO pointer derived from a hardware-supplied MFA offset without bounds
checking, allowing out-of-bounds MMIO reads and writes.
A compromised service processor can supply a crafted MFA value whose offset
exceeds the size of the mapped BAR0 region. The driver passes this
through valid_mfa(), which only rejects the sentinel 0xFFFFFFFF, then
immediately uses it to compute an MMIO pointer in interrupt context.
A malicious message_size field can additionally drive
ibmasm_receive_message() to read further beyond the end of the BAR.
The root cause is that get_i2o_message() adds the hardware-supplied
GET_MFA_ADDR(mfa) offset to base_address with no upper bound check, and
incoming_data_size() trusts the hardware message_size field without
clamping it to the remaining mapped space.
Fix by storing the BAR0 length at probe time and rejecting any MFA whose
computed offset would place the i2o_message structure outside the mapped
region. Also clamp the data sizes passed to ibmasm_receive_message() and
the outbound memcpy_toio() to the remaining mapped space so that a
crafted message_size or oversized dot command cannot drive reads or
writes beyond the end of the BAR.
Reported-by: Yuhao Jiang <danisjiang@gmail.com>
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: ychen@northwestern.edu
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tyllis Xu <LivelyCarpet87@gmail.com>
---
drivers/misc/ibmasm/ibmasm.h | 1 +
drivers/misc/ibmasm/lowlevel.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
drivers/misc/ibmasm/module.c | 1 +
3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/misc/ibmasm/ibmasm.h b/drivers/misc/ibmasm/ibmasm.h
index XXXXXXX..XXXXXXX 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/ibmasm/ibmasm.h
+++ b/drivers/misc/ibmasm/ibmasm.h
@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ struct service_processor {
struct list_head node;
spinlock_t lock;
void __iomem *base_address;
+ resource_size_t bar0_size;
unsigned int irq;
struct command *current_command;
struct command *heartbeat;
diff --git a/drivers/misc/ibmasm/module.c b/drivers/misc/ibmasm/module.c
index XXXXXXX..XXXXXXX 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/ibmasm/module.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/ibmasm/module.c
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ static int ibmasm_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
if (!sp->base_address) {
dev_err(sp->dev, "Failed to ioremap pci memory\n");
result = -ENODEV;
goto error_ioremap;
}
+ sp->bar0_size = pci_resource_len(pdev, 0);
result = request_irq(sp->irq, ibmasm_interrupt_handler, IRQF_SHARED,
diff --git a/drivers/misc/ibmasm/lowlevel.c b/drivers/misc/ibmasm/lowlevel.c
index XXXXXXX..XXXXXXX 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/ibmasm/lowlevel.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/ibmasm/lowlevel.c
@@ -26,9 +26,17 @@ int ibmasm_send_i2o_message(struct service_processor *sp)
mfa = get_mfa_inbound(sp->base_address);
if (!mfa)
return 1;
+ if (GET_MFA_ADDR(mfa) + sizeof(struct i2o_message) > sp->bar0_size) {
+ dev_err(sp->dev, "ignoring out-of-range MFA 0x%08x\n", mfa);
+ return 1;
+ }
command_size = get_dot_command_size(command->buffer);
+ command_size = min_t(unsigned int, command_size,
+ (unsigned int)(sp->bar0_size - GET_MFA_ADDR(mfa) -
+ sizeof(struct i2o_header)));
header.message_size = outgoing_message_size(command_size);
@@ -60,12 +68,25 @@ irqreturn_t ibmasm_interrupt_handler(int irq, void * dev_id)
mfa = get_mfa_outbound(base_address);
if (valid_mfa(mfa)) {
- struct i2o_message *msg = get_i2o_message(base_address, mfa);
- ibmasm_receive_message(sp, &msg->data, incoming_data_size(msg));
- } else
- dbg("didn't get a valid MFA\n");
+ if (GET_MFA_ADDR(mfa) + sizeof(struct i2o_message) > sp->bar0_size) {
+ dev_err(sp->dev,
+ "ignoring out-of-range MFA 0x%08x\n", mfa);
+ } else {
+ struct i2o_message *msg = get_i2o_message(base_address, mfa);
+ u32 max_data = (u32)(sp->bar0_size - GET_MFA_ADDR(mfa) -
+ sizeof(struct i2o_header));
+
+ ibmasm_receive_message(sp, &msg->data,
+ min_t(u32, incoming_data_size(msg),
+ max_data));
+ }
+ } else {
+ dbg("didn't get a valid MFA\n");
+ }
set_mfa_outbound(base_address, mfa);
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