[PATCH] ACPI: FPDT: validate table and record lengths

From: Pengpeng Hou

Date: Mon Jul 06 2026 - 06:51:40 EST


FPDT records are supplied by firmware and are walked through
length fields stored in the table itself.

Check the main-table entry length before reading an entry, check
the mapped subtable length before remapping it, and check each
record length before saving a typed record pointer for sysfs.

This keeps malformed firmware records from being interpreted as
complete resume, suspend, or boot records when the current item
is shorter than the structure consumed by the driver.

Signed-off-by: Pengpeng Hou <pengpeng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/acpi/acpi_fpdt.c | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 47 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpi_fpdt.c b/drivers/acpi/acpi_fpdt.c
index e75dd28d31a9..79191ed20f76 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_fpdt.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_fpdt.c
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ static int fpdt_process_subtable(u64 address, u32 subtable_type)
struct fpdt_subtable_header *subtable_header;
struct fpdt_record_header *record_header;
char *signature = (subtable_type == SUBTABLE_FBPT ? "FBPT" : "S3PT");
- u32 length, offset;
+ u32 length, offset, remaining;
int result;

if (!fpdt_address_valid(address)) {
@@ -182,10 +182,17 @@ static int fpdt_process_subtable(u64 address, u32 subtable_type)

if (strncmp((char *)&subtable_header->signature, signature, 4)) {
pr_info(FW_BUG "subtable signature and type mismatch!\n");
+ acpi_os_unmap_memory(subtable_header, sizeof(*subtable_header));
return -EINVAL;
}

length = subtable_header->length;
+ if (length < sizeof(*subtable_header)) {
+ pr_err(FW_BUG "Invalid FPDT subtable length %u.\n", length);
+ acpi_os_unmap_memory(subtable_header, sizeof(*subtable_header));
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
acpi_os_unmap_memory(subtable_header, sizeof(*subtable_header));

subtable_header = acpi_os_map_memory(address, length);
@@ -194,17 +201,29 @@ static int fpdt_process_subtable(u64 address, u32 subtable_type)

offset = sizeof(*subtable_header);
while (offset < length) {
- record_header = (void *)subtable_header + offset;
- offset += record_header->length;
+ remaining = length - offset;
+ if (remaining < sizeof(*record_header)) {
+ pr_err(FW_BUG "Truncated FPDT record header.\n");
+ result = -EINVAL;
+ goto err;
+ }

- if (!record_header->length) {
- pr_err(FW_BUG "Zero-length record found in FPTD.\n");
+ record_header = (void *)subtable_header + offset;
+ if (record_header->length < sizeof(*record_header) ||
+ record_header->length > remaining) {
+ pr_err(FW_BUG "Invalid FPDT record length %u.\n",
+ record_header->length);
result = -EINVAL;
goto err;
}
+ offset += record_header->length;

switch (record_header->type) {
case RECORD_S3_RESUME:
+ if (record_header->length < sizeof(*record_resume)) {
+ result = -EINVAL;
+ goto err;
+ }
if (subtable_type != SUBTABLE_S3PT) {
pr_err(FW_BUG "Invalid record %d for subtable %s\n",
record_header->type, signature);
@@ -221,6 +240,10 @@ static int fpdt_process_subtable(u64 address, u32 subtable_type)
goto err;
break;
case RECORD_S3_SUSPEND:
+ if (record_header->length < sizeof(*record_suspend)) {
+ result = -EINVAL;
+ goto err;
+ }
if (subtable_type != SUBTABLE_S3PT) {
pr_err(FW_BUG "Invalid %d for subtable %s\n",
record_header->type, signature);
@@ -236,6 +259,10 @@ static int fpdt_process_subtable(u64 address, u32 subtable_type)
goto err;
break;
case RECORD_BOOT:
+ if (record_header->length < sizeof(*record_boot)) {
+ result = -EINVAL;
+ goto err;
+ }
if (subtable_type != SUBTABLE_FBPT) {
pr_err(FW_BUG "Invalid %d for subtable %s\n",
record_header->type, signature);
@@ -317,7 +344,21 @@ static int __init acpi_init_fpdt(void)
}

while (offset < header->length) {
+ if (header->length - offset < sizeof(*subtable)) {
+ pr_err(FW_BUG "Truncated FPDT subtable entry.\n");
+ result = -EINVAL;
+ goto err_subtable;
+ }
+
subtable = (void *)header + offset;
+ if (subtable->length < sizeof(*subtable) ||
+ subtable->length > header->length - offset) {
+ pr_err(FW_BUG "Invalid FPDT subtable entry length %u.\n",
+ subtable->length);
+ result = -EINVAL;
+ goto err_subtable;
+ }
+
switch (subtable->type) {
case SUBTABLE_FBPT:
case SUBTABLE_S3PT:
@@ -330,7 +371,7 @@ static int __init acpi_init_fpdt(void)
/* Other types are reserved in ACPI 6.4 spec. */
break;
}
- offset += sizeof(*subtable);
+ offset += subtable->length;
}
return 0;
err_subtable:
--
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