[PATCH v7 4/7] KVM: arm64: Fix bounds checking in do_ffa_mem_reclaim()

Sebastian Ene sebastianene at google.com
Wed Jun 17 07:51:27 PDT 2026


From: Mostafa Saleh <smostafa at google.com>

Sashiko (locally) reports out of bound write possiblity if SPMD
returns an invalid data.

While SPMD is considered trusted, pKVM does some basic checks,
for offset to be less than or equal len.

However, that is incorrect as even if the offset is smaller than
len pKVM can still access out of bound memory in the next
ffa_host_unshare_ranges().

Split this check into 2:
1- Check that the fixed portion of the descriptor fits.
2- After getting reg, check the variable array size addr_range_cnt
   fits.

Also, drop the WARN_ONs as that will panic the kernel and in the
next checks there are no WARNs, so that makes it consistent.

Fixes: 0a9f15fd5674 ("KVM: arm64: pkvm: Add support for fragmented FF-A descriptors")
Signed-off-by: Mostafa Saleh <smostafa at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ene <sebastianene at google.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c | 12 +++++++++---
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c
index 1af722771178..2d211661952e 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c
@@ -607,8 +607,8 @@ static void do_ffa_mem_reclaim(struct arm_smccc_1_2_regs *res,
 	 * check that we end up with something that doesn't look _completely_
 	 * bogus.
 	 */
-	if (WARN_ON(offset > len ||
-		    fraglen > KVM_FFA_MBOX_NR_PAGES * PAGE_SIZE)) {
+	if (offset + CONSTITUENTS_OFFSET(0) > len ||
+	    fraglen > KVM_FFA_MBOX_NR_PAGES * PAGE_SIZE) {
 		ret = FFA_RET_ABORTED;
 		ffa_rx_release(res);
 		goto out_unlock;
@@ -636,11 +636,17 @@ static void do_ffa_mem_reclaim(struct arm_smccc_1_2_regs *res,
 		ffa_rx_release(res);
 	}
 
+	reg = (void *)buf + offset;
+	if (offset + CONSTITUENTS_OFFSET(reg->addr_range_cnt) > len) {
+		ret = FFA_RET_ABORTED;
+		ffa_rx_release(res);
+		goto out_unlock;
+	}
+
 	ffa_mem_reclaim(res, handle_lo, handle_hi, flags);
 	if (res->a0 != FFA_SUCCESS)
 		goto out_unlock;
 
-	reg = (void *)buf + offset;
 	/* If the SPMD was happy, then we should be too. */
 	WARN_ON(ffa_host_unshare_ranges(reg->constituents,
 					reg->addr_range_cnt));
-- 
2.54.0.1136.gdb2ca164c4-goog




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