[PATCH 2/3] commands: md: fix OOB read when mmapping

Ahmad Fatoum a.fatoum at barebox.org
Mon Jan 12 00:56:05 PST 2026


md -s /dev/mmappable.device will read out-of-bounds if the byte count to
read exceeds the device size.

Limit the size read from the memmap to fix this.

Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at barebox.org>
---
 commands/md.c    | 4 ++++
 common/ratp/md.c | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/commands/md.c b/commands/md.c
index f3758f571fb2..401538d4d8be 100644
--- a/commands/md.c
+++ b/commands/md.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ static int do_mem_md(int argc, char *argv[])
 	loff_t	start = 0, size = 0x100;
 	int	r, now;
 	int	ret = 0;
+	struct stat st;
 	int fd;
 	char *filename = "/dev/mem";
 	int mode = O_RWSIZE_4;
@@ -54,6 +55,9 @@ static int do_mem_md(int argc, char *argv[])
 		return 1;
 	}
 
+	if (!fstat(fd, &st) && st.st_size != FILE_SIZE_STREAM)
+		size = min(size, st.st_size);
+
 	map = memmap(fd, PROT_READ);
 	if (map != MAP_FAILED) {
 		ret = memory_display(map + start, start, size,
diff --git a/common/ratp/md.c b/common/ratp/md.c
index 8221afaebc22..f3302dedafb7 100644
--- a/common/ratp/md.c
+++ b/common/ratp/md.c
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ static int do_ratp_mem_md(const char *filename,
 			  loff_t size,
 			  uint8_t *output)
 {
+	struct stat st;
 	int r, now, t;
 	int ret = 0;
 	int fd;
@@ -73,6 +74,9 @@ static int do_ratp_mem_md(const char *filename,
 		return -errno;
 	}
 
+	if (!fstat(fd, &st) && st.st_size != FILE_SIZE_STREAM)
+		size = min(size, st.st_size);
+
 	map = memmap(fd, PROT_READ);
 	if (map != MAP_FAILED) {
 		memcpy(output, (uint8_t *)(map + start), size);
-- 
2.47.3




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