[PATCH] mtd: afs: validate v2 image info bounds

From: Pengpeng Hou

Date: Mon Jul 06 2026 - 06:01:32 EST


The AFS v2 parser uses footer[8] to locate the image information block
inside the current erase block, then uses the image information
region_count to walk entries from a fixed local array. The footer offset
and region count come from flash contents and were not checked against the
erase block or the local image-info array before use.

Reject v2 entries whose image information offset would underflow the erase
block calculation, and reject region counts that cannot fit in the local
image-info array before walking region entries.

Signed-off-by: Pengpeng Hou <pengpeng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/mtd/parsers/afs.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/parsers/afs.c b/drivers/mtd/parsers/afs.c
index 26116694c821..7ab3d50f565e 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/parsers/afs.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/parsers/afs.c
@@ -235,6 +235,9 @@ static int afs_parse_v2_partition(struct mtd_info *mtd,
pr_debug("Parsing v2 partition @%08x-%08x\n",
off, off + mtd->erasesize);

+ if (mtd->erasesize < sizeof(footer))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
/* First read the footer */
ptr = off + mtd->erasesize - sizeof(footer);
ret = mtd_read(mtd, ptr, sizeof(footer), &sz, (u_char *)footer);
@@ -245,6 +248,8 @@ static int afs_parse_v2_partition(struct mtd_info *mtd,
}
name = (char *) &footer[0];
version = footer[9];
+ if (footer[8] > mtd->erasesize - sizeof(footer))
+ return -EINVAL;
ptr = off + mtd->erasesize - sizeof(footer) - footer[8];

pr_debug("found image \"%s\", version %08x, info @%08x\n",
@@ -278,6 +283,8 @@ static int afs_parse_v2_partition(struct mtd_info *mtd,
entrypoint = imginfo[pad];
attributes = imginfo[pad+1];
region_count = imginfo[pad+2];
+ if (region_count > (ARRAY_SIZE(imginfo) - pad - 3) / 4)
+ return -EINVAL;
block_start = imginfo[20];
block_end = imginfo[21];

--
2.43.0