[PATCH v7 4/7] KVM: arm64: Fix bounds checking in do_ffa_mem_reclaim()
Vincent Donnefort
vdonnefort at google.com
Thu Jun 18 09:19:20 PDT 2026
On Wed, Jun 17, 2026 at 02:51:27PM +0000, Sebastian Ene wrote:
> 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>
FTR, I believe the comment about composite_off in include/linux/arm_ffa.h is
incorrect. It is an offset to a ffa_composite_mem_region (not a
ffa_mem_region_addr_range)
Reviewed-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort 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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