Re: [PATCH v5] gpiolib: acpi: prevent address truncation in OperationRegion handler

From: Mika Westerberg

Date: Tue Jun 02 2026 - 07:45:53 EST


On Tue, Jun 02, 2026 at 01:32:20PM +0200, Marco Scardovi wrote:
> The ACPI address space handler for GPIO OperationRegions receives the
> pin offset as a 64-bit acpi_physical_address. However, the handler
> truncates this address to a u16 pin_index before validating it.
>
> If an ACPI table attempts to access a pin offset greater than 65535,
> the truncation wraps the index around. This may result in accesses to
> unintended GPIO pins.

How in practice this can be done given that the GPIO resource has only 2
bytes for the index?

> Fix this by adding an explicit check to verify that the 64-bit address
> is less than agpio->pin_table_length before assigning it to the u16
> pin_index, returning AE_BAD_PARAMETER if it is out of bounds.
> Additionally, make the length calculation overflow-safe and change the types
> of length and loop counter to unsigned.
>
> Assisted-by: Antigravity:gemini-3.5-flash
> Signed-off-by: Marco Scardovi <scardracs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/gpio/gpiolib-acpi-core.c | 17 +++++++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-acpi-core.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-acpi-core.c
> index 1cb5f5884ff0..fc157ee9ac61 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-acpi-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-acpi-core.c
> @@ -1102,10 +1102,10 @@ acpi_gpio_adr_space_handler(u32 function, acpi_physical_address address,
> struct gpio_chip *chip = achip->chip;
> struct acpi_resource_gpio *agpio;
> struct acpi_resource *ares;
> - u16 pin_index = address;
> + unsigned int length;
> acpi_status status;
> - int length;
> - int i;
> + unsigned int i;
> + u16 pin_index;
>
> status = acpi_buffer_to_resource(achip->conn_info.connection,
> achip->conn_info.length, &ares);
> @@ -1125,7 +1125,16 @@ acpi_gpio_adr_space_handler(u32 function, acpi_physical_address address,
> return AE_BAD_PARAMETER;
> }
>
> - length = min(agpio->pin_table_length, pin_index + bits);
> + if (address >= agpio->pin_table_length) {
> + ACPI_FREE(ares);
> + return AE_BAD_PARAMETER;
> + }
> +
> + pin_index = address;
> + if (bits > agpio->pin_table_length - pin_index)
> + length = agpio->pin_table_length;
> + else
> + length = pin_index + bits;
> for (i = pin_index; i < length; ++i) {
> unsigned int pin = agpio->pin_table[i];
> struct acpi_gpio_connection *conn;
> --
> 2.54.0