[PATCH] RISC-V: KVM: fix stack overrun when loading vlenb

Radim Krčmář rkrcmar at ventanamicro.com
Tue Aug 5 03:44:21 PDT 2025


The userspace load can put up to 2048 bits into an xlen bit stack
buffer.  We want only xlen bits, so check the size beforehand.

Fixes: 2fa290372dfe ("RISC-V: KVM: add 'vlenb' Vector CSR")
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar at ventanamicro.com>
---
 arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_vector.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_vector.c b/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_vector.c
index a5f88cb717f3..05f3cc2d8e31 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_vector.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_vector.c
@@ -182,6 +182,8 @@ int kvm_riscv_vcpu_set_reg_vector(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
 		struct kvm_cpu_context *cntx = &vcpu->arch.guest_context;
 		unsigned long reg_val;
 
+		if (reg_size != sizeof(reg_val))
+			return -EINVAL;
 		if (copy_from_user(&reg_val, uaddr, reg_size))
 			return -EFAULT;
 		if (reg_val != cntx->vector.vlenb)
-- 
2.50.0




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