[PATCH] firmware: arm_scmi: Fix OOB in scmi_power_name_get()

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Dan,

On Fri, 15 May 2026 at 12:28, Dan Carpenter <error27 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2026 at 11:59:15AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > scmi_power_name_get() does not validate the domain number passed by the
> > external caller, which may lead to an out-of-bounds access.
>
> Is an external caller an out of tree caller?  So far as I can see this

I meant a caller outside drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/.

> is only called by scmi_pm_domain_probe().
>
>         scmi_pd->name = power_ops->name_get(ph, i);
>
> where i < num_domains.

You are right. But this seems to be only API implementation in
drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/ that does not validate the passed domain
number.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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