Re: [PATCH] cxl/pci: Fix out-of-bounds read of the RAS Header Log

[Richard Cheng <icheng@nvidia.com>]

On Fri, Jun 05, 2026 at 08:30:55AM +0800, Dave Jiang wrote:
> 
> 
> On 6/4/26 9:16 PM, Richard Cheng wrote:
> > The CXL RAS Header Log is 64 bytes, but CXL_HEADERLOG_SIZE is SZ_512,
> > which is 512 bytes, not 512 bits, so the kernel treats it as 8x times
> > bigger.
> > 
> > header_log_copy() reads 448 bytes of MMIO past the register, and
> > cxl_*_aer_uncorrectable_error() tracepoints memcpy 512 bytes from the
> > 64-byte header log. On the CPER path the source is a heap object, so the
> > copy runs 448 bytes past it and leaks kernel memory into a trace record
> > that userspace can read:
> 
> I think Terry raised the same issue and this [1] is what Dan suggested for the fix as there's rasdaemon (user) impact.
> 
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cxl/6a0e33507e961_1717cc100f6@djbw-dev.notmuch/
> 
> DJ

Hi Dave,

I see, so is he gonna do the fix or I can send a v2 with the suggested approach ?

Best regards,
Richard Cheng.

> 
> > 
> > """
> > [  297.704020] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in trace_event_raw_event_cxl_port_aer_uncorrectable_error+0x318/0x4b0
> > [  297.704032] Read of size 512 at addr ffff0000dd6ee118 by task bash/3078
> > 
> > [  297.704038] CPU: 116 UID: 0 PID: 3078 Comm: bash Not tainted 7.1.0-rc6+ #1 PREEMPT(full)
> > [  297.704041] Hardware name:  , BIOS buildbrain-gcid-sbios-45660680 Wed May 27 08:27:58 AM UTC 2026
> > [  297.704042] Call trace:
> > [  297.704043]  show_stack+0x24/0x50 (C)
> > [  297.704049]  dump_stack_lvl+0x80/0x140
> > [  297.704053]  print_report+0x100/0x630
> > [  297.704057]  kasan_report+0xb8/0x130
> > [  297.704059]  kasan_check_range+0x15c/0x240
> > [  297.704061]  __asan_memcpy+0x40/0xc8
> > [  297.704064]  trace_event_raw_event_cxl_port_aer_uncorrectable_error+0x318/0x4b0
> > [  297.704066]  __traceiter_cxl_port_aer_uncorrectable_error+0x90/0x108
> > [  297.704068]  cxl_ras_inject_set+0x278/0x3d0
> > [  297.704070]  simple_attr_write_xsigned.isra.0+0x198/0x298
> > [  297.704074]  simple_attr_write+0x44/0x88
> > [  297.704076]  debugfs_attr_write+0x78/0xd0
> > [  297.704080]  vfs_write+0x1f4/0x960
> > [  297.704083]  ksys_write+0x100/0x220
> > [  297.704085]  __arm64_sys_write+0x78/0xc8
> > [  297.704087]  invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x150/0x200
> > [  297.704090]  do_el0_svc+0xd0/0x210
> > [  297.704091]  el0_svc+0x44/0x138
> > [  297.704095]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc0/0x108
> > [  297.704097]  el0t_64_sync+0x1b8/0x1c0
> > 
> > [  297.704100] Allocated by task 3078:
> > [  297.704102]  kasan_save_stack+0x40/0x80
> > [  297.704104]  kasan_save_track+0x24/0x58
> > [  297.704105]  kasan_save_alloc_info+0x44/0x88
> > [  297.704107]  __kasan_kmalloc+0x108/0x110
> > [  297.704108]  __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x1bc/0x588
> > [  297.704111]  cxl_ras_inject_set+0xcc/0x3d0
> > [  297.704112]  simple_attr_write_xsigned.isra.0+0x198/0x298
> > [  297.704114]  simple_attr_write+0x44/0x88
> > [  297.704116]  debugfs_attr_write+0x78/0xd0
> > [  297.704117]  vfs_write+0x1f4/0x960
> > [  297.704119]  ksys_write+0x100/0x220
> > [  297.704120]  __arm64_sys_write+0x78/0xc8
> > [  297.704122]  invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x150/0x200
> > [  297.704123]  do_el0_svc+0xd0/0x210
> > [  297.704124]  el0_svc+0x44/0x138
> > [  297.704125]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc0/0x108
> > [  297.704127]  el0t_64_sync+0x1b8/0x1c0
> > 
> > [  297.704129] The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff0000dd6ee100
> >                 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-rnd-09-96 of size 96
> > [  297.704132] The buggy address is located 24 bytes inside of
> >                 allocated 88-byte region [ffff0000dd6ee100, ffff0000dd6ee158)
> > 
> > [  297.704135] The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
> > [  297.704138] page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x15d6e
> > [  297.704140] flags: 0x17fffc000000000(node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1ffff)
> > [  297.704143] page_type: f5(slab)
> > [  297.704147] raw: 017fffc000000000 ffff00008001c1c0 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
> > [  297.704148] raw: 0000000000000000 0000000802000200 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
> > [  297.704149] page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
> > 
> > [  297.704150] Memory state around the buggy address:
> > [  297.704151]  ffff0000dd6ee000: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
> > [  297.704152]  ffff0000dd6ee080: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
> > [  297.704153] >ffff0000dd6ee100: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc
> > [  297.704154]                                                     ^
> > [  297.704155]  ffff0000dd6ee180: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
> > [  297.704155]  ffff0000dd6ee200: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
> > [  297.704156] =================================================================
> > """
> > 
> > Define CXL_HEADERLOG_SIZE as SZ_64. The trace record's header_log field
> > shrinks from 128 to 16 dwords, but only those 16 were ever real data,
> > the rest was always junk.
> > 
> > Fixes: 2f6e9c305127 ("cxl/pci: add tracepoint events for CXL RAS")
> > Signed-off-by: Richard Cheng <icheng@nvidia.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/cxl/cxl.h | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/cxl/cxl.h b/drivers/cxl/cxl.h
> > index 1297594beaec..f322d7c79ed2 100644
> > --- a/drivers/cxl/cxl.h
> > +++ b/drivers/cxl/cxl.h
> > @@ -158,8 +158,8 @@ static inline int ways_to_eiw(unsigned int ways, u8 *eiw)
> >  #define CXL_RAS_CAP_CONTROL_FE_MASK GENMASK(5, 0)
> >  #define CXL_RAS_HEADER_LOG_OFFSET 0x18
> >  #define CXL_RAS_CAPABILITY_LENGTH 0x58
> > -#define CXL_HEADERLOG_SIZE SZ_512
> > -#define CXL_HEADERLOG_SIZE_U32 SZ_512 / sizeof(u32)
> > +#define CXL_HEADERLOG_SIZE SZ_64
> > +#define CXL_HEADERLOG_SIZE_U32 (CXL_HEADERLOG_SIZE / sizeof(u32))
> >  
> >  /* CXL 2.0 8.2.8.1 Device Capabilities Array Register */
> >  #define CXLDEV_CAP_ARRAY_OFFSET 0x0
> > 
> > base-commit: 6f3ed7fec72fc8979b2a8c7219c0a9fcfc8d07b5
>