Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] virtio-mem: validate device-reported block size

"David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.virtualization,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
> ---
> 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.

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Cheers,

David
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