From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Ratheesh Kannoth <rkannoth@marvell.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
<sumang@marvell.com>, <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
<davem@davemloft.net>, <edumazet@google.com>, <pabeni@redhat.com>,
<sgoutham@marvell.com>, Anshumali Gaur <agaur@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] octeontx2-af: fix out-of-bounds read setting MSI-X irq affinity
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2026 11:31:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260824113147.1c035de4@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260820055451.2642358-1-rkannoth@marvell.com>
On Thu, 20 Aug 2026 11:24:51 +0530 Ratheesh Kannoth wrote:
> rvu_register_interrupts() walks every MSI-X vector and uses strstr()
> to match "Mbox" or "FLR" in irq_name before pinning those interrupts
> to CPU 0. irq_name is a per-vector NAME_SIZE buffer, but not every
> slot is populated before this loop runs. strstr() keeps scanning until
> it finds a NUL terminator, so an uninitialized slot can trigger a KASAN
> slab-out-of-bounds read at boot when debug options are enabled.
>
> Use strnstr() with NAME_SIZE to bound the search within each vector's
> name buffer.
String search for this sort of type tracking in C is a.. brave choice :/
But whatever..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-24 18:31 UTC|newest]
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2026-08-20 5:54 Ratheesh Kannoth
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2026-08-24 18:40 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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