From: Osama Abdelkader <osama.abdelkader@gmail.com>
To: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@collabora.com>,
Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>,
Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau@arm.com>,
Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>,
Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>, Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>,
Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Osama Abdelkader <osama.abdelkader@gmail.com>, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] drm/panthor: reject firmware sections with oversized data
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:39:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260716143939.21903-1-osama.abdelkader@gmail.com> (raw)
In panthor_fw_load_section_entry(), the data size to copy is calculated
without validating it against the allocated section_size:
section->data.size = hdr.data.end - hdr.data.start;
If a crafted firmware sets data.size larger than the allocated memory,
this could cause a heap buffer overflow in panthor_fw_init_section_mem()
memcpy(section->mem->kmap, section->data.buf, section->data.size);
Additionally, if the section->data.size exceeds the BO size, could this
memset underflow the size calculation, leading to a massive out-of-bounds
zeroing of kernel memory?
memset(section->mem->kmap + section->data.size, 0,
panthor_kernel_bo_size(section->mem) - section->data.size);
Reject section entries whose initial data is larger than the section size.
Fixes: 2718d91816ee ("drm/panthor: Add the FW logical block")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Osama Abdelkader <osama.abdelkader@gmail.com>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_fw.c | 11 +++++++++--
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_fw.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_fw.c
index 986151681b24..a338c4f0a7f5 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_fw.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_fw.c
@@ -545,6 +545,7 @@ static int panthor_fw_load_section_entry(struct panthor_device *ptdev,
struct panthor_fw_binary_section_entry_hdr hdr;
struct panthor_fw_section *section;
u32 section_size;
+ u32 data_size;
u32 name_len;
int ret;
@@ -595,6 +596,13 @@ static int panthor_fw_load_section_entry(struct panthor_device *ptdev,
return -EINVAL;
}
+ section_size = hdr.va.end - hdr.va.start;
+ data_size = hdr.data.end - hdr.data.start;
+ if (data_size > section_size) {
+ drm_err(&ptdev->base, "Firmware corrupted, section data exceeds section size\n");
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
name_len = iter->size - iter->offset;
section = drmm_kzalloc(&ptdev->base, sizeof(*section), GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -603,7 +611,7 @@ static int panthor_fw_load_section_entry(struct panthor_device *ptdev,
list_add_tail(§ion->node, &ptdev->fw->sections);
section->flags = hdr.flags;
- section->data.size = hdr.data.end - hdr.data.start;
+ section->data.size = data_size;
if (section->data.size > 0) {
void *data = drmm_kmalloc(&ptdev->base, section->data.size, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -626,7 +634,6 @@ static int panthor_fw_load_section_entry(struct panthor_device *ptdev,
section->name = name;
}
- section_size = hdr.va.end - hdr.va.start;
if (section_size) {
u32 cache_mode = hdr.flags & CSF_FW_BINARY_IFACE_ENTRY_CACHE_MODE_MASK;
struct panthor_gem_object *bo;
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-07-16 14:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-16 14:39 Osama Abdelkader [this message]
2026-07-16 16:11 ` Boris Brezillon
2026-07-24 15:33 ` Steven Price
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