From: Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>,
John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc: "Hui Peng" <benquike@gmail.com>,
"Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>,
"Andy Shevchenko" <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 3/3] serial: core: reject baud_base values that overflow port->uartclk in uart_set_info()
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2026 01:30:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260921013027.659965-3-benquike@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260919222627.3797854-1-benquike@gmail.com>
In uart_set_info(), new_info->baud_base is multiplied by 16 and stored in
uport->uartclk (an unsigned int):
uport->uartclk = new_info->baud_base * 16;
While uart_set_info() checks if (uartclk == 0) and
if (new_info->baud_base < 9600), when new_info->baud_base exceeds
UINT_MAX / 16 with low bits set (for example, 0x10000001), multiplying
by 16 wraps around in 32-bit unsigned arithmetic to a small non-zero value
(16), bypassing both uartclk == 0 and new_info->baud_base < 9600 and
setting uport->uartclk = 16 (baud_base = 1, well below the required
minimum of 9600 * 16).
Reject new_info->baud_base > UINT_MAX / 16 with -EINVAL in
uart_set_info().
Tested in QEMU against Linux 7.3.0-rc3 by calling ioctl(fd, TIOCSSERIAL,
&ss) with ss.baud_base = 0x10000001 on /dev/ttyS1: on the unfixed kernel
TIOCSSERIAL succeeds (ret = 0) and wraps uport->uartclk to 16
(TIOCGSERIAL reports baud_base = 1), whereas with the fix applied
TIOCSSERIAL returns -EINVAL and preserves the existing uport->uartclk.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Fixes: 6eabce6608d6 ("serial: core: check uartclk for zero to avoid divide by zero")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Split out into patch 3/3 of the series, add Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org,
and document the QEMU test method, as requested by Greg Kroah-Hartman.
drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
index 128fc056f5c9..4cd4fb0f7ee3 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
@@ -965,7 +965,7 @@ static int uart_set_info(struct tty_struct *tty, struct tty_port *port,
}
if ((new_info->irq >= irq_get_nr_irqs()) || (new_info->irq < 0) ||
- (new_info->baud_base < 9600))
+ (new_info->baud_base < 9600) || (new_info->baud_base > UINT_MAX / 16))
return -EINVAL;
if (change_port || change_irq) {
--
2.49.0
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-21 1:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-19 22:26 [PATCH] serial: fix 8250 hash_mutex race and uart_get_baud_rate() divide-by-zero Hui Peng
2026-09-20 5:17 ` Greg KH
[not found] ` <CAKpmkkV+Gk11x0wCbT1dK8FDraaCb0q=ALS+Tnj0wM+EcMt-SA@mail.gmail.com>
2026-09-20 5:31 ` Greg KH
2026-09-21 1:30 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] serial: 8250: hold hash_mutex across IRQ chain linking in serial_link_irq_chain() Hui Peng
2026-09-21 1:30 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] serial: core: allow third iteration in uart_get_baud_rate() fallback Hui Peng
2026-09-21 1:30 ` Hui Peng [this message]
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