[PATCH 2/2] staging: vc04_services: vc-sm-cma: add address validation in clean_invalid_contig_2d()

Sebastian Josue Alba Vives sebasjosue84 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 28 23:18:46 PDT 2026


From: Sebastián Alba Vives <sebasjosue84 at gmail.com>

clean_invalid_contig_2d() performs cache maintenance operations
(dmac_inv_range, dmac_clean_range, dmac_flush_range) on a user-supplied
virtual address without verifying that it falls within the user address
space. A local attacker can pass a kernel virtual address via the
VC_SM_CMA_CMD_CLEAN_INVALID2 ioctl, causing the kernel to execute cache
maintenance operations on arbitrary kernel memory, potentially leading
to data corruption or information disclosure.

Add access_ok() validation to verify the entire address range falls
within userspace before performing any cache operations. Also add
overflow checks using check_mul_overflow()/check_add_overflow() for the
range computation to prevent size_t wraparound.

The /dev/vc-sm-cma device is world-accessible (mode 0666), so this is
reachable by any unprivileged local user on 32-bit Raspberry Pi
kernels.

Fixes: dfdc7a773374 ("staging: vc04_services: Add new vc-sm-cma driver")
Signed-off-by: Sebastián Alba Vives <sebasjosue84 at gmail.com>
---
 .../staging/vc04_services/vc-sm-cma/vc_sm.c   | 21 ++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/vc-sm-cma/vc_sm.c b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/vc-sm-cma/vc_sm.c
index d597d41b4..29aa5a939 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/vc-sm-cma/vc_sm.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/vc-sm-cma/vc_sm.c
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/of_device.h>
+#include <linux/overflow.h>
 #include <linux/platform_device.h>
 #include <linux/proc_fs.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
@@ -1263,6 +1264,8 @@ static int clean_invalid_contig_2d(const void __user *addr,
 				   const unsigned int cache_op)
 {
 	size_t i;
+	size_t last_block_offset;
+	size_t total_range;
 	void (*op_fn)(const void *start, const void *end);
 
 	if (!block_size) {
@@ -1270,11 +1273,27 @@ static int clean_invalid_contig_2d(const void __user *addr,
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
+	if (!block_count)
+		return 0;
+
 	op_fn = cache_op_to_func(cache_op);
 	if (!op_fn)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	for (i = 0; i < block_count; i ++, addr += stride)
+	/*
+	 * Validate that the entire user-supplied address range falls
+	 * within userspace. Without this check, an attacker could
+	 * invoke cache maintenance operations on kernel addresses.
+	 */
+	if (check_mul_overflow((size_t)(block_count - 1), stride,
+			       &last_block_offset))
+		return -EOVERFLOW;
+	if (check_add_overflow(last_block_offset, block_size, &total_range))
+		return -EOVERFLOW;
+	if (!access_ok(addr, total_range))
+		return -EFAULT;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < block_count; i++, addr += stride)
 		op_fn(addr, addr + block_size);
 
 	return 0;
-- 
2.43.0




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