Re: [PATCH 05/10] x86/fpu: Fix potential underflow in xstate_calculate_size()

Alexander Mikhalitsyn <[email protected]> Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:32:31 +0200
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.criu,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <CAJqdLrrLmg1ROanhzR9F_PcGixvR_9WL8xzF98vh+dT7vr5xHw@mail.gmail.com>
Am Mo., 15. Juni 2026 um 21:39 Uhr schrieb Andrei Vagin <[email protected]>:
>
> xstate_calculate_size() calculates the size required for a given set of
> xfeatures. It determines the topmost feature by finding the most
> significant bit in xfeatures using fls64(xfeatures) - 1.
>
> If xfeatures is 0, fls64(0) returns 0, and topmost becomes -1.
> Previously, topmost was unsigned int, so -1 underflowed to UINT_MAX.
> This caused the subsequent check `topmost <= XFEATURE_SSE` to fail, and
> the code proceeded to access xstate arrays using topmost (UINT_MAX) as
> an index, leading to an out-of-bounds access.
>
> Fix this by checking if xfeatures only contains legacy features (FP/SSE)
> or is empty (xfeatures <= XFEATURE_MASK_FPSSE) before calculating
> topmost.
>
> Fixes: d6d6d50f1e80 ("x86/fpu/xstate: Consolidate size calculations")
> Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <[email protected]>

> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c | 7 ++++---
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c
> index a7b6524a9dea..ed39d7051d0d 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c
> @@ -589,12 +589,13 @@ static bool __init check_xstate_against_struct(int nr)
>
>  static unsigned int xstate_calculate_size(u64 xfeatures, bool compacted)
>  {
> -       unsigned int topmost = fls64(xfeatures) -  1;
> -       unsigned int offset, i;
> +       unsigned int topmost, offset, i;
>
> -       if (topmost <= XFEATURE_SSE)
> +       if (xfeatures <= XFEATURE_MASK_FPSSE)
>                 return sizeof(struct xregs_state);
>
> +       topmost = fls64(xfeatures) -  1;
> +
>         if (compacted) {
>                 offset = xfeature_get_offset(xfeatures, topmost);
>         } else {
> --
> 2.54.0.1189.g8c84645362-goog
>
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