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From: Guanglei Zhu <zhugl3@xiaopeng.com>
To: amit@kernel.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	liuc63@xiaopeng.com, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] virtio: console: check the control packet size before parsing it
Date: Tue,  3 Nov 2026 16:41:56 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261103084156.426810-1-zhugl3@xiaopeng.com> (raw)

The control queue handler hands whatever the host wrote to the
control queue straight to the parser:

	buf->len = min_t(size_t, len, buf->size);
	buf->offset = 0;

	handle_control_message(vq->vdev, portdev, buf);

handle_control_message() casts the start of the buffer to struct
virtio_console_control and reads the id, event and value fields
without ever looking at buf->len. A control packet shorter than the
structure makes the driver parse whatever bytes were left in the
reused buffer as a control header, and the uninitialized event then
drives the port state machine.

Drop control packets that are too short to hold the header.

Fixes: 17634ba25544 ("virtio: console: Add a new MULTIPORT feature, support for generic ports")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Guanglei Zhu <zhugl3@xiaopeng.com>
---
 drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
index 019bcae81af5..5e2a4403dbf8 100644
--- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
+++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
@@ -1597,6 +1597,12 @@ static void handle_control_message(struct virtio_device *vdev,
 	size_t name_size;
 	int err;
 
+	if (buf->len < sizeof(struct virtio_console_control)) {
+		dev_dbg(&portdev->vdev->dev,
+			"Invalid control packet size %zu\n", buf->len);
+		return;
+	}
+
 	cpkt = (struct virtio_console_control *)(buf->buf + buf->offset);
 
 	port = find_port_by_id(portdev, virtio32_to_cpu(vdev, cpkt->id));
-- 
2.50.1


             reply	other threads:[~2026-11-03  8:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-11-03  8:41 Guanglei Zhu [this message]
2026-11-03  9:39 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2026-11-03 11:17   ` Guanglei Zhu
2026-11-03 11:33     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2026-11-03 11:59       ` Guanglei Zhu

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