[PATCH] power: supply: cros_usbpd-charger: bound the EC-reported port count

From: Bryam Vargas via B4 Relay

Date: Mon Jun 15 2026 - 05:04:27 EST


From: Bryam Vargas <hexlabsecurity@xxxxxxxxx>

cros_usbpd_charger_probe() reads two port counts from the EC and uses
one of them, num_charger_ports, as the loop bound when populating a
fixed-size array:

struct port_data *ports[EC_USB_PD_MAX_PORTS]; /* 8 entries */
...
for (i = 0; i < charger->num_charger_ports; i++)
charger->ports[charger->num_registered_psy++] = port;

Both num_usbpd_ports (from EC_CMD_USB_PD_PORTS) and num_charger_ports
(from EC_CMD_CHARGE_PORT_COUNT) are u8 values reported by the EC. The
only validation is a sanity check that compares the two EC-reported
values against each other:

if (num_charger_ports < num_usbpd_ports ||
num_charger_ports > num_usbpd_ports + 1)
return -EPROTO;

It never checks either count against EC_USB_PD_MAX_PORTS, the size of
the ports[] array. A malfunctioning, malicious or compromised EC that
reports num_usbpd_ports == num_charger_ports == N for any N > 8 (for
example both 255) passes this check, and the loop then writes N pointers
into the 8-entry ports[] array embedded in the devm_kzalloc()'d
charger_data, overflowing it by up to 255 - 8 = 247 entries (~1976
bytes): a slab out-of-bounds write.

Reject a port count larger than the ports[] array can hold.

Fixes: f68b883e8fad ("power: supply: add cros-ec USBPD charger driver.")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Bryam Vargas <hexlabsecurity@xxxxxxxxx>
---
I reproduced the out-of-bounds write with an in-kernel test that drives
the cros_usbpd_charger_probe() geometry verbatim under KASAN - a
devm_kzalloc()'d charger_data with the 8-entry ports[] array, the
EC-value cross-check, and the population loop - with the device-supplied
port counts:

num_charger_ports = num_usbpd_ports = 12, no bound:
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ...probe
Write of size 8 ... cache kmalloc-128 ... 0 bytes to the right of the
allocated 128-byte region (ports[8..11] past the 8-entry array)
with this patch (count > EC_USB_PD_MAX_PORTS rejected): -EPROTO, no
KASAN report.
a well-formed count (<= EC_USB_PD_MAX_PORTS) is unaffected, no report.

The full device range - both counts reported as 255, writing 247
pointers (~1976 bytes) past the array - reproduces the same way under
userspace AddressSanitizer on both -m32 and -m64.
---
drivers/power/supply/cros_usbpd-charger.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/power/supply/cros_usbpd-charger.c b/drivers/power/supply/cros_usbpd-charger.c
index 7d3e676a951c..d639957f9775 100644
--- a/drivers/power/supply/cros_usbpd-charger.c
+++ b/drivers/power/supply/cros_usbpd-charger.c
@@ -589,10 +589,12 @@ static int cros_usbpd_charger_probe(struct platform_device *pd)

/*
* Sanity checks on the number of ports:
- * there should be at most 1 dedicated port
+ * there should be at most 1 dedicated port, and the count is
+ * reported by the EC, so it must not exceed the ports[] array.
*/
if (charger->num_charger_ports < charger->num_usbpd_ports ||
- charger->num_charger_ports > (charger->num_usbpd_ports + 1)) {
+ charger->num_charger_ports > (charger->num_usbpd_ports + 1) ||
+ charger->num_charger_ports > EC_USB_PD_MAX_PORTS) {
dev_err(dev, "Unexpected number of charge port count\n");
ret = -EPROTO;
goto fail_nowarn;

---
base-commit: 8e65320d91cdc3b241d4b94855c88459b91abf66
change-id: 20260615-b4-disp-e0930b21-3d4fa61d5333

Best regards,
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Bryam Vargas <hexlabsecurity@xxxxxxxxx>