Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 2 Apr 2026 18:06:12 +0200 | | From | Greg KH <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] fpga: microchip-spi: add bounds checks in mpf_ops_parse_header() |
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On Thu, Apr 02, 2026 at 09:37:52AM -0600, Sebastian Alba Vives wrote: > From: Sebastian Josue Alba Vives <sebasjosue84@gmail.com> > > mpf_ops_parse_header() reads several fields from the bitstream file > and uses them as offsets and sizes without validating them against the > buffer size, leading to multiple out-of-bounds read vulnerabilities:
Note, bitstream files are "trusted" so this really isn't a "vulnerability" just a "someone with hardware permissions sent a stupid file to the kernel" issue :)
> 1. There is no check that count is large enough to read header_size > at MPF_HEADER_SIZE_OFFSET (24). Add a minimum count check. > > 2. When header_size (u8 from file) is 0, the expression > *(buf + header_size - 1) reads one byte before the buffer. > Return -EINVAL since retrying with a larger buffer cannot fix > a zero header_size. > > 3. In the block lookup loop, block_id_offset and block_start_offset > advance by MPF_LOOKUP_TABLE_RECORD_SIZE (9) each iteration with > blocks_num (u8) controlling the count. With a small buffer, these > offsets exceed count, causing OOB reads via get_unaligned_le32(). > Return -EAGAIN since a larger buffer may resolve the issue. > > 4. components_size_start (from file) and component_size_byte_num > (derived from components_num, u16 from file) are used as offsets > into buf without validation, allowing arbitrary OOB reads. > > Add bounds checks for all four cases. > > Fixes: 5f8d4a9008307 ("fpga: microchip-spi: add Microchip MPF FPGA manager") > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org > Signed-off-by: Sebastian Alba Vives <sebasjosue84@gmail.com> > --- > drivers/fpga/microchip-spi.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
Please look at these review comments: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260402153752.3793055-1-sebasjosue84%40gmail.com this driver is "odd", but some of those comments seem correct.
thansk,
greg k-h
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