[PATCH] RISC-V: KVM: Fix integer overflow in kvm_pmu_validate_counter_mask()

Jiakai Xu xujiakai2025 at iscas.ac.cn
Wed Mar 18 20:59:02 PDT 2026


When a guest initiates an SBI_EXT_PMU_COUNTER_CFG_MATCH call with
ctr_base=0xfffffffffffffffe, ctr_mask=0xeb5f and flags=0x1
(SBI_PMU_CFG_FLAG_SKIP_MATCH), kvm_riscv_vcpu_pmu_ctr_cfg_match()
first invokes kvm_pmu_validate_counter_mask() to verify whether
ctr_base and ctr_mask are valid, by evaluating:
 !ctr_mask || (ctr_base + __fls(ctr_mask) >= kvm_pmu_num_counters(kvpmu))

With the above inputs, __fls(0xeb5f) equals 15, and adding 15 to
0xfffffffffffffffe causes an integer overflow, wrapping around to 13.
Since 13 is less than kvm_pmu_num_counters(), the validation wrongly
succeeds.

Thereafter, since flags & SBI_PMU_CFG_FLAG_SKIP_MATCH is satisfied,
the code evaluates:
 !test_bit(ctr_base + __ffs(ctr_mask), kvpmu->pmc_in_use)

Here __ffs(0xeb5f) equals 0, so test_bit() receives 0xfffffffffffffffe
as the bit index and attempts to access the corresponding element of
the kvpmu->pmc_in_use, which results in an invalid memory access. This
triggers the following Oops:
 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address e3ebffff12abba89
  generic_test_bit include/asm-generic/bitops/generic-non-atomic.h:128
  kvm_riscv_vcpu_pmu_ctr_cfg_match arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_pmu.c:758
  kvm_sbi_ext_pmu_handler arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_sbi_pmu.c:49
  kvm_riscv_vcpu_sbi_ecall arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_sbi.c:608
  kvm_riscv_vcpu_exit arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_exit.c:240

The root cause is that kvm_pmu_validate_counter_mask() does not account
for the case where ctr_base itself is out of range, allowing the
subsequent addition to silently overflow and bypass the check.

Fix this by explicitly validating ctr_base against kvm_pmu_num_counters()
before performing the addition.

This bug was found by fuzzing the KVM RISC-V PMU interface.

Fixes: 0cb74b65d2e5e6 ("RISC-V: KVM: Implement perf support without sampling")
Signed-off-by: Jiakai Xu <jiakaiPeanut at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiakai Xu <xujiakai2025 at iscas.ac.cn>
---
 arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_pmu.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_pmu.c b/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_pmu.c
index e873430e596b2..a098a9b417ad8 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_pmu.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_pmu.c
@@ -266,8 +266,10 @@ static int pmu_ctr_read(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long cidx,
 static int kvm_pmu_validate_counter_mask(struct kvm_pmu *kvpmu, unsigned long ctr_base,
 					 unsigned long ctr_mask)
 {
-	/* Make sure the we have a valid counter mask requested from the caller */
-	if (!ctr_mask || (ctr_base + __fls(ctr_mask) >= kvm_pmu_num_counters(kvpmu)))
+	unsigned long num_ctrs = kvm_pmu_num_counters(kvpmu);
+
+	/* Make sure we have a valid counter mask requested from the caller */
+	if (!ctr_mask || ctr_base >= num_ctrs || (ctr_base + __fls(ctr_mask) >= num_ctrs))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	return 0;
-- 
2.34.1




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