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From: Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] char: hpet: prevent hard-IRQ divide-by-zero in hpet_interrupt() via HPET_IRQFREQ
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2026 02:20:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260921022019.865442-1-benquike@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260919203515.2581203-1-benquike@gmail.com>

In hpet_ioctl_common(), HPET_IRQFREQ computes the timer period as:

  devp->hd_ireqfreq = hpet_time_div(hpetp, arg);

where hpet_time_div() returns div64_ul(hpetp->hp_tick_freq + (arg >> 1),
arg). Whenever arg > 2 * hpetp->hp_tick_freq, integer division truncates
to 0 and stores devp->hd_ireqfreq = 0.

Although hpet_ioctl_ieon() (HPET_IE_ON) checks if (!devp->hd_ireqfreq)
before enabling the timer interrupt, HPET_IRQFREQ neither rejects
updates while HPET_IE is already active nor checks whether
hpet_time_div(hpetp, arg) evaluates to 0. As a result, arming the timer
with a valid frequency (for example, HPET_IRQFREQ with 1000 Hz followed
by HPET_IE_ON) and then calling HPET_IRQFREQ with a large frequency (such
as 0xffffffffUL) overwrites devp->hd_ireqfreq with 0 while the timer
interrupt is active. When the next interrupt fires, hpet_interrupt()
reads t = devp->hd_ireqfreq (0) and computes base = mc % t, crashing the
kernel in hard-IRQ context:

  Oops: divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
  CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0
  RIP: 0010:hpet_interrupt+0x20f/0x360
  Call Trace:
   <IRQ>
   __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x102/0x400
   handle_irq_event+0xa6/0x1c0
   handle_level_irq+0x205/0x5e0
   __common_interrupt+0x60/0x130
   common_interrupt+0x7a/0x90
   </IRQ>
  Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

Reject HPET_IRQFREQ with -EBUSY when HPET_IE is set in devp->hd_flags,
and return -EINVAL when hpet_time_div(hpetp, arg) evaluates to 0.

Tested in QEMU (-global hpet.hpet-intcap=0x0c24 with noapic) by opening
/dev/hpet and calling ioctl(fd, HPET_IRQFREQ, 1000), ioctl(fd,
HPET_IE_ON, 0), and ioctl(fd, HPET_IRQFREQ, 0xffffffffUL): on the unfixed
kernel this immediately triggers the divide error panic in
hpet_interrupt(), whereas on the fixed kernel HPET_IRQFREQ returns -EBUSY
while HPET_IE is enabled and -EINVAL when hpet_time_div(hpetp, arg) is 0.

Fixes: ba3f213f8a31 ("[PATCH] HPET: make frequency calculations 32 bit safe")
Fixes: 273ef9509b79 ("drivers/char/hpet.c: fix periodic-emulation for delayed interrupts")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Add Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org and include the QEMU test procedure and
  oops trace in the commit description per Greg Kroah-Hartman.
- Add Fixes: 273ef9509b79 ("drivers/char/hpet.c: fix periodic-emulation
  for delayed interrupts") for the mc % t division in hpet_interrupt().

 drivers/char/hpet.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/hpet.c b/drivers/char/hpet.c
index 285c6037417a..ada95872e148 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hpet.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hpet.c
@@ -625,13 +625,18 @@ hpet_ioctl_common(struct hpet_dev *devp, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg,
 		devp->hd_flags &= ~HPET_PERIODIC;
 		break;
 	case HPET_IRQFREQ:
+		if (devp->hd_flags & HPET_IE) {
+			err = -EBUSY;
+			break;
+		}
+
 		if ((arg > hpet_max_freq) &&
 		    !capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE)) {
 			err = -EACCES;
 			break;
 		}
 
-		if (!arg) {
+		if (!arg || !hpet_time_div(hpetp, arg)) {
 			err = -EINVAL;
 			break;
 		}
-- 
2.49.0

  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-21  2:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-19 20:35 [PATCH] " Hui Peng
2026-09-20  5:19 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-09-21  2:20 ` Hui Peng [this message]
2026-09-21 15:10   ` [PATCH v2] " krzk

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