Re: [PATCH v7 3/8] cxl/hdm: Add BI coherency support for endpoint decoders
[email protected] Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:26:33 +0000
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.linux-cxl |
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Thank you for your contribution! Sashiko AI review found 1 potential issue(s) to consider: Pre-existing issues: - [High] Kernel stack out-of-bounds read when parsing HDM decoder target lists with interleave_ways > 8. -- --- Patch [3]: [PATCH v7 3/8] cxl/hdm: Add BI coherency support for endpoint decoders --- commit b9f3e30d3fbbe54161183f25487d1176310fc0eb Author: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]> cxl/hdm: Add BI coherency support for endpoint decoders This commit caches the HDM decoder's supported coherency models on struct cxl_hdm. It also uses this to default the target_type for uncommitted endpoint decoders and blocks support for pre-committed decoders with the BI bit set. > diff --git a/drivers/cxl/core/hdm.c b/drivers/cxl/core/hdm.c > index 0c80b76a5f9b4..9da8aa2116095 100644 > --- a/drivers/cxl/core/hdm.c > +++ b/drivers/cxl/core/hdm.c [ ... ] > @@ -1040,17 +1063,7 @@ static int init_hdm_decoder(struct cxl_port *port, struct cxl_decoder *cxld, > port->commit_end = cxld->id; > } else { > if (cxled) { > - struct cxl_memdev *cxlmd = cxled_to_memdev(cxled); > - struct cxl_dev_state *cxlds = cxlmd->cxlds; > - > - /* > - * Default by devtype until a device arrives that needs > - * more precision. > - */ > - if (cxlds->type == CXL_DEVTYPE_CLASSMEM) > - cxld->target_type = CXL_DECODER_HOSTONLYMEM; > - else > - cxld->target_type = CXL_DECODER_DEVMEM; > + cxld->target_type = cxled_default_type(cxled); > } else { > /* To be overridden by region type at commit time */ > cxld->target_type = CXL_DECODER_HOSTONLYMEM; [Severity: High] This is a pre-existing issue, but looking further down in init_hdm_decoder(), is there a risk of a kernel stack out-of-bounds read? When parsing HDM decoder target lists for a switch decoder, the loop uses cxld->interleave_ways as the upper bound: union { u64 value; unsigned char target_id[8]; } target_list; ... if (!cxled) { lo = readl(hdm + CXL_HDM_DECODER0_TL_LOW(which)); hi = readl(hdm + CXL_HDM_DECODER0_TL_HIGH(which)); target_list.value = (hi << 32) + lo; for (i = 0; i < cxld->interleave_ways; i++) cxld->target_map[i] = target_list.target_id[i]; return 0; } Since the target_list union is fixed at 8 bytes, if a CXL switch device presents an interleave_ways value greater than 8 (such as 12 or 16), could this loop read up to 8 bytes of adjacent kernel stack memory into cxld->target_map? Because this mapped array is subsequently exposed to user-space via the target_list sysfs attribute, could this allow unprivileged users to leak stack canaries or kernel addresses? -- Sashiko AI review ยท https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/[email protected]?part=3