From: Eva Crystal <0xiviel@gmail.com>
To: Min Ma <mamin506@gmail.com>, Lizhi Hou <lizhi.hou@amd.com>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Eva Crystal <0xiviel@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] accel/amdxdna: bound the firmware-supplied mailbox register offsets
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:02:12 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260913200212.133126-2-0xiviel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260913200212.133126-1-0xiviel@gmail.com>
Firmware chooses where a mailbox channel's head and tail registers live
and reports them to the driver as device addresses: in the management
mailbox block it writes into the SRAM BAR, read by
aie2_get_mgmt_chann_info(), and in the CREATE_CONTEXT response, read by
aie2_create_context() for every hardware context. AIE2_MBOX_OFF() turns
each one into a raw byte offset into the mailbox mapping, and both
aie2_hw_start() and aie2_create_context() derive the mailbox interrupt
register from one of them by adding 4. On AIE4, aie4_mailbox_start()
takes the same four offsets straight out of the mailbox_info block.
None of them is checked. mailbox_reg_read() and mailbox_reg_write() add
the offset to xdna_mailbox_res::mbox_base and hand the result to
readl()/writel(), so an offset past the end of that mapping is an MMIO
access outside it, at a kernel virtual address the driver has no claim
to. AIE2_MBOX_OFF() is an unsigned 32-bit subtraction: a reported
address below the aperture base does not yield an obviously invalid
small offset but wraps to a very large one, and the + 4 for the
interrupt register can wrap independently of the value it derives from.
The bound is already there. xdna_mailbox_res::mbox_size is the exact
length of the mapping pcim_iomap() produced - the device's mailbox
window size, or the BAR length when the device does not override it -
and it sits in the same struct as mbox_base. The driver stores it and
never reads it.
Check the four register offsets and the interrupt register against
mbox_size in xdna_mailbox_start_channel(). Every mailbox register
access reads mb_chann->res[] or mb_chann->iohub_int_addr, and that
function is the only writer of either, so it is the one point every
firmware-supplied offset passes through, for the management channel,
for a hardware context and for AIE4 alike. It is also where the derived
interrupt register arrives, as a parameter, which a check at the
producing sites would not cover. A zero interrupt register keeps its
existing meaning of "this platform has no such register".
Failing there rejects the channel before any offset reaches readl() or
writel(). aie2_hw_start() and aie4_mailbox_start() unwind and fail the
probe or resume; aie2_create_context() frees the channel and destroys
the firmware context, so AMDXDNA_CREATE_HWCTX returns an error to
userspace instead of leaving a channel that accesses outside its
mapping.
This is the firmware-to-driver trust boundary. Whether the part can
report a register outside the mailbox aperture is not established and
there is no reproducer. The offsets are simply the one firmware-supplied
value this driver leaves unbounded, against a limit it already computes
and stores.
Signed-off-by: Eva Crystal <0xiviel@gmail.com>
---
drivers/accel/amdxdna/amdxdna_mailbox.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/accel/amdxdna/amdxdna_mailbox.c b/drivers/accel/amdxdna/amdxdna_mailbox.c
index cc8865f4e79c..0c4cb8beb26e 100644
--- a/drivers/accel/amdxdna/amdxdna_mailbox.c
+++ b/drivers/accel/amdxdna/amdxdna_mailbox.c
@@ -112,6 +112,28 @@ static u32 mailbox_reg_read(struct mailbox_channel *mb_chann, u32 mbox_reg)
return readl(ringbuf_addr);
}
+/*
+ * Firmware describes where a channel's head and tail registers live, as raw
+ * offsets into the mailbox mapping: in the management mailbox block it writes
+ * into SRAM for the management channel, and in the CREATE_CONTEXT response for
+ * a hardware context. Both helpers above add such an offset straight to
+ * mbox_base, so bound it against the size of that mapping first.
+ */
+static bool mailbox_reg_in_range(struct mailbox_channel *mb_chann, u32 mbox_reg)
+{
+ struct xdna_mailbox_res *mb_res = &mb_chann->mb->res;
+
+ /* Every access through the two helpers above is 32 bits wide. */
+ return (u64)mbox_reg + sizeof(u32) <= mb_res->mbox_size;
+}
+
+static bool mailbox_chann_res_in_range(struct mailbox_channel *mb_chann,
+ const struct xdna_mailbox_chann_res *res)
+{
+ return mailbox_reg_in_range(mb_chann, res->mb_head_ptr_reg) &&
+ mailbox_reg_in_range(mb_chann, res->mb_tail_ptr_reg);
+}
+
static inline void mailbox_irq_acknowledge(struct mailbox_channel *mb_chann)
{
if (mb_chann->iohub_int_addr)
@@ -518,6 +540,16 @@ xdna_mailbox_start_channel(struct mailbox_channel *mb_chann,
return -EINVAL;
}
+ /* A zero iohub_int_addr means the platform has no such register. */
+ if (!mailbox_chann_res_in_range(mb_chann, x2i) ||
+ !mailbox_chann_res_in_range(mb_chann, i2x) ||
+ (iohub_int_addr && !mailbox_reg_in_range(mb_chann, iohub_int_addr))) {
+ dev_err(mb_chann->mb->dev,
+ "Mailbox register offset outside the %zu byte mailbox mapping\n",
+ mb_chann->mb->res.mbox_size);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
mb_chann->msix_irq = mb_irq;
mb_chann->iohub_int_addr = iohub_int_addr;
memcpy(&mb_chann->res[CHAN_RES_X2I], x2i, sizeof(*x2i));
--
2.53.0
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