From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Hari Mishal <harimishal1@gmail.com>,
"Michael S . Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
Jason Wang <jasowangio@gmail.com>
Cc: "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Xuan Zhuo" <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>,
"Eugenio Pérez" <eperezma@redhat.com>,
virtualization@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] virtio-mem: validate device-reported block size
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:55:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b2176313-b444-4f66-a71c-647b92cc16a8@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260715164139.40957-1-harimishal1@gmail.com>
On 7/15/26 18:41, Hari Mishal wrote:
> The device_block_size read from the virtio-mem config space is used as a
> divisor and also in ALIGN_DOWN() further down the code path in the
> driver without further validation. A zero value leads to a division by
> zero, and a non-power-of-two value corrupts the ALIGN_DOWN() bitmask
> arithmetic leading to a misreporting of guest-usable ram, post crash.
>
> Reject both at init time instead of trusting the device.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hari Mishal <harimishal1@gmail.com>
> ---
> v2: dropped the redundant explicit zero check, since
> is_power_of_2(0) already returns false.
>
> drivers/virtio/virtio_mem.c | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_mem.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_mem.c
> index 11c441501582..0e04fec458af 100644
> --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_mem.c
> +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_mem.c
> @@ -2847,6 +2847,12 @@ static int virtio_mem_init(struct virtio_mem *vm)
> &vm->plugged_size);
> virtio_cread_le(vm->vdev, struct virtio_mem_config, block_size,
> &vm->device_block_size);
> + if (!is_power_of_2(vm->device_block_size)) {
> + dev_err(&vm->vdev->dev,
> + "invalid device block size: 0x%llx\n",
> + (unsigned long long)vm->device_block_size);
> + return -EINVAL;
> + }
The spec states "The device MUST set block_size to a power of two."
I'm missing the point here.
--
Cheers,
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-16 8:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-15 14:22 [PATCH 0/4] virtio: validate device-reported values across drivers Hari Mishal
2026-07-15 14:22 ` [PATCH 1/4] virtio-mem: validate device-reported block size Hari Mishal
2026-07-15 15:57 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2026-07-15 16:41 ` [PATCH v2 " Hari Mishal
2026-07-16 8:55 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
2026-07-16 14:18 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-07-16 15:59 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-17 5:03 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-07-17 5:48 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2026-07-17 8:39 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-17 8:59 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2026-07-17 9:14 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-07-17 10:10 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2026-07-17 10:15 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-07-17 10:21 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-17 10:28 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2026-07-17 10:44 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-07-17 11:00 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-17 10:23 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2026-07-17 10:46 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-07-17 10:52 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2026-07-17 12:07 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-07-17 13:08 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2026-07-17 14:31 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-07-17 15:27 ` Michael Kelley
2026-07-17 16:28 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2026-07-17 16:30 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2026-07-15 14:22 ` [PATCH 2/4] virtio_input: validate device-reported multitouch slot count Hari Mishal
2026-07-15 15:50 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2026-07-15 16:07 ` Hari Mishal
2026-07-15 16:11 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2026-07-15 18:25 ` Dmitry Torokhov
[not found] ` <CAMmC+=DXS=xs0CZyf+N-71NT8D51xQYatBv=dfVQC1aBohDdmA@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <alkTnRb9qhgcMGGi@google.com>
2026-07-16 17:33 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2026-07-15 16:41 ` [PATCH v2 " Hari Mishal
2026-07-15 14:22 ` [PATCH 3/4] virtio_console: avoid NULL portdev dereference in in_intr() Hari Mishal
2026-07-15 14:22 ` [PATCH 4/4] virtio_console: take a kref in find_port_by_vq() to fix port UAF Hari Mishal
2026-07-15 14:42 ` [PATCH v2 " Hari Mishal
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