Re: [PATCH v2] cxl/hdm: Fix out of bounds read of the decoder target list

Guixin Liu <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-cxl,dev.linux.lists.sashiko-reviews
Message-ID <[email protected]>

在 2026/8/12 14:26, [email protected] 写道:
> Thank you for your contribution! Sashiko AI review found 2 potential issue(s) to consider:
>
> Pre-existing issues:
> - [High] Endianness bug when decoding the HDM decoder Target List registers on big-endian architectures.
> - [High] Permanent port state corruption on decoder initialization failure due to un-reverted `port->commit_end`.
> --
>
> --- Patch [1]: [PATCH v2] cxl/hdm: Fix out of bounds read of the decoder target list ---
> commit c692efbe782398330e6841bfdd1146cdee44ef3b
> Author: Guixin Liu <[email protected]>
> Subject: cxl/hdm: Fix out of bounds read of the decoder target list
>
> This commit fixes an out-of-bounds read in the HDM decoder initialization. It
> adds a check to ensure the interleave ways do not exceed the size of the
> target list array when programming the target map.
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cxl/[email protected]/
>
>> diff --git a/drivers/cxl/core/hdm.c b/drivers/cxl/core/hdm.c
>> index 0c80b76a5f9b4..9d49b48a4456e 100644
>> --- a/drivers/cxl/core/hdm.c
>> +++ b/drivers/cxl/core/hdm.c
>> @@ -1084,6 +1084,18 @@ static int init_hdm_decoder(struct cxl_port *port, struct cxl_decoder *cxld,
>>   		cxld->interleave_ways, cxld->interleave_granularity);
>>   
>>   	if (!cxled) {
>> +		/*
>> +		 * The Target List register only holds
>> +		 * ARRAY_SIZE(target_list.target_id) entries, so a switch
>> +		 * decoder cannot interleave across more ports than that.
>> +		 */
>> +		if (cxld->interleave_ways > ARRAY_SIZE(target_list.target_id)) {
>> +			dev_warn(&port->dev,
>> +				 "decoder%d.%d: Interleave ways: %d exceeds target list size\n",
>> +				 port->id, cxld->id, cxld->interleave_ways);
>> +			return -ENXIO;
> [Severity: High]
> This is a pre-existing issue, but does returning here leave port->commit_end
> permanently advanced?
>
> Earlier in init_hdm_decoder(), port->commit_end is updated:
>
> 	if (committed) {
> 		...
> 		port->commit_end = cxld->id;
> 	}
>
> If we fail here and return -ENXIO, port->commit_end is not rolled back.  If
> initialization is retried, cxl_num_decoders_committed() will return an
> inflated count, which could cause the out of order commit check to fail.
> Could this permanently prevent the port from initializing?
Yes, this is another bug, I will send another patch to fix this.
>> +		}
>> +
>>   		lo = readl(hdm + CXL_HDM_DECODER0_TL_LOW(which));
>>   		hi = readl(hdm + CXL_HDM_DECODER0_TL_HIGH(which));
>>   		target_list.value = (hi << 32) + lo;
> [Severity: High]
> This is a pre-existing issue, but does this code read the target IDs
> incorrectly on big-endian architectures?
>
> target_list.value is populated as a native 64-bit integer.  The subsequent loop
> reads it byte-by-byte via the target_id union:
>
> 		for (i = 0; i < cxld->interleave_ways; i++)
> 			cxld->target_map[i] = target_list.target_id[i];
>
> On big-endian hardware, accessing the native 64-bit integer byte-by-byte will
> read the most significant bytes first, which could scramble the port target
> routing.
There is no CXL big-endian architecture platform, should not change this 
currently. Best Regards, Guixin Liu
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