[PATCH master 3/3] of: fdt: fix heap-buffer-overflow in fdt_machine_is_compatible

Ahmad Fatoum a.fatoum at barebox.org
Mon Mar 2 05:52:34 PST 2026


fdt_machine_is_compatible() reads the FDT property header fields
(len, nameoff) without first checking that the full struct fdt_property
fits within the FDT buffer. While the tag field (4 bytes) is validated
by dt_ptr_ok(fdt, tagp), the subsequent access to fdt_prop->len and
fdt_prop->nameoff (at offsets +4 and +8) can read past the buffer when
the FDT is truncated between the tag and the property header fields.

Add a dt_ptr_ok(fdt, fdt_prop) check before accessing the property
fields, matching the existing pattern in __of_unflatten_dtb().

Found by fuzz-fdt-compatible with AddressSanitizer.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply at anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at barebox.org>
---
 drivers/of/fdt.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/of/fdt.c b/drivers/of/fdt.c
index 658718d4e238..13fb4b5c099e 100644
--- a/drivers/of/fdt.c
+++ b/drivers/of/fdt.c
@@ -825,6 +825,9 @@ int fdt_machine_is_compatible(const struct fdt_header *fdt, size_t fdt_size, con
 
 		case FDT_PROP:
 			fdt_prop = (const void *)fdt + dt_struct;
+			if (!dt_ptr_ok(fdt, fdt_prop))
+				return 0;
+
 			len = fdt32_to_cpu(fdt_prop->len);
 
 			name = dt_string(&f, dt_strings, fdt32_to_cpu(fdt_prop->nameoff));
-- 
2.47.3




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