[PATCH v5 5/6] KVM: arm64: Validate the offset to the mem access descriptor

From: Mostafa Saleh

Date: Tue May 26 2026 - 11:30:18 EST


From: Sebastian Ene <sebastianene@xxxxxxxxxx>

Prevent the pKVM hypervisor from making assumptions that the
endpoint memory access descriptor (EMAD) comes right after the
FF-A memory region header.
Prior to FF-A version 1.1 the header of the memory region
didn't contain an offset to the endpoint memory access descriptor.
The layout of a memory transaction looks like this from 1.1 onward:
Type | Field name | Offset
[ Header | ffa_mem_region | 0
EMAD 1 | ffa_mem_region_attributes) | ffa_mem_region.ep_mem_offset
]
Verify that the offset to the first endpoint memory access descriptor
is within the mailbox buffer bounds.

Also, fix one hardcoded sizeof(struct ffa_mem_region_attributes) that
should be replaced ffa_emad_size_get() for compatibility with FFA v1.0.

[@Mostafa, Add missing call to ffa_rx_release() and use fraglen
as the max buffer size as it is the only intialised part]

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ene <sebastianene@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mostafa Saleh <smostafa@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c
index b6cf9ad82e12..79de358333e4 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c
@@ -479,7 +479,7 @@ static void __do_ffa_mem_xfer(const u64 func_id,
struct ffa_mem_region_attributes *ep_mem_access;
struct ffa_composite_mem_region *reg;
struct ffa_mem_region *buf;
- u32 offset, nr_ranges, checked_offset;
+ u32 offset, nr_ranges, checked_offset, em_mem_access_off;
int ret = 0;

if (addr_mbz || npages_mbz || fraglen > len ||
@@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ static void __do_ffa_mem_xfer(const u64 func_id,
}

if (fraglen < sizeof(struct ffa_mem_region) +
- sizeof(struct ffa_mem_region_attributes)) {
+ ffa_emad_size_get(hyp_ffa_version)) {
ret = FFA_RET_INVALID_PARAMETERS;
goto out;
}
@@ -508,8 +508,13 @@ static void __do_ffa_mem_xfer(const u64 func_id,
buf = hyp_buffers.tx;
memcpy(buf, host_buffers.tx, fraglen);

- ep_mem_access = (void *)buf +
- ffa_mem_desc_offset(buf, 0, hyp_ffa_version);
+ em_mem_access_off = ffa_mem_desc_offset(buf, 0, hyp_ffa_version);
+ if ((u64)em_mem_access_off + ffa_emad_size_get(hyp_ffa_version) > fraglen) {
+ ret = FFA_RET_INVALID_PARAMETERS;
+ goto out_unlock;
+ }
+
+ ep_mem_access = (void *)buf + em_mem_access_off;
offset = ep_mem_access->composite_off;
if (!offset || buf->ep_count != 1 || buf->sender_id != HOST_FFA_ID) {
ret = FFA_RET_INVALID_PARAMETERS;
@@ -576,7 +581,7 @@ static void do_ffa_mem_reclaim(struct arm_smccc_1_2_regs *res,
DECLARE_REG(u32, flags, ctxt, 3);
struct ffa_mem_region_attributes *ep_mem_access;
struct ffa_composite_mem_region *reg;
- u32 offset, len, fraglen, fragoff;
+ u32 offset, len, fraglen, fragoff, em_mem_access_off;
struct ffa_mem_region *buf;
int ret = 0;
u64 handle;
@@ -599,8 +604,14 @@ static void do_ffa_mem_reclaim(struct arm_smccc_1_2_regs *res,
len = res->a1;
fraglen = res->a2;

- ep_mem_access = (void *)buf +
- ffa_mem_desc_offset(buf, 0, hyp_ffa_version);
+ em_mem_access_off = ffa_mem_desc_offset(buf, 0, hyp_ffa_version);
+ if ((u64)em_mem_access_off + ffa_emad_size_get(hyp_ffa_version) > fraglen) {
+ ret = FFA_RET_INVALID_PARAMETERS;
+ ffa_rx_release(res);
+ goto out_unlock;
+ }
+
+ ep_mem_access = (void *)buf + em_mem_access_off;
offset = ep_mem_access->composite_off;
/*
* We can trust the SPMD to get this right, but let's at least
--
2.54.0.746.g67dd491aae-goog