From: redacherkaoui <redacherkaoui67@gmail.com>
To: pbonzini@redhat.com
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
redahack12-glitch <redahack12@gmail.com>,
REDA CHERKAOUI <redacherkaoui67@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: coalesced_mmio: Fix out-of-bounds write in coalesced_mmio_write()
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2025 01:11:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251127001132.13704-1-redacherkaoui67@gmail.com> (raw)
From: redahack12-glitch <redahack12@gmail.com>
The coalesced MMIO ring stores each entry's MMIO payload in an 8-byte
fixed-size buffer (data[8]). However, coalesced_mmio_write() copies
the payload using memcpy(..., len) without verifying that 'len' does not
exceed the buffer size.
A malicious or buggy caller could therefore trigger a write past the end
of the data[] array and corrupt adjacent kernel memory inside the ring
page.
Add a bounds check to reject writes where len > sizeof(data).
Signed-off-by: REDA CHERKAOUI <redacherkaoui67@gmail.com>
---
virt/kvm/coalesced_mmio.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/virt/kvm/coalesced_mmio.c b/virt/kvm/coalesced_mmio.c
index 375d6285475e..4f302713de9e 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/coalesced_mmio.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/coalesced_mmio.c
@@ -68,6 +68,14 @@ static int coalesced_mmio_write(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
/* copy data in first free entry of the ring */
+ /* Prevent overflow of the fixed 8-byte data[] field */
+ if (len > sizeof(ring->coalesced_mmio[insert].data)) {
+ spin_unlock(&dev->kvm->ring_lock);
+ pr_warn_ratelimited("KVM: coalesced MMIO write too large (%d > %zu)\n",
+ len, sizeof(ring->coalesced_mmio[insert].data));
+ return -E2BIG;
+ }
+
ring->coalesced_mmio[insert].phys_addr = addr;
ring->coalesced_mmio[insert].len = len;
memcpy(ring->coalesced_mmio[insert].data, val, len);
--
2.43.0
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