Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] cxl/features: Reject Set Features output buffer smaller than the header
From: Dave Jiang
Date: Tue Jul 14 2026 - 14:05:57 EST
On 6/26/26 3:41 AM, Richard Cheng wrote:
> cxlctl_set_feature() sizes its output buffer from the user's
> fwctl_rpc.out_len but never checks it is large enough to hold even the
> fwctl_rpc_cxl_out header. With out_len == 0 , kvzalloc() returns
> ZERO_SIZE_PTR, which passes the !rpc_out check, the subsequent
> rpc_out->size = 0 then writes through the poison pointer.
>
> Reject requests whose output buffer can't hold the response header,
> before allocating. The Set Feature reply carries no payload, so the
> header is all that is required.
>
> Fixes: eb5dfcb9e36d ("cxl: Add support to handle user feature commands for set feature")
> Signed-off-by: Richard Cheng <icheng@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changelog:
>
> v2 -> v3:
> - New patch.
>
> drivers/cxl/core/features.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/cxl/core/features.c b/drivers/cxl/core/features.c
> index 9c714ee42a41..ed18ccb5e236 100644
> --- a/drivers/cxl/core/features.c
> +++ b/drivers/cxl/core/features.c
> @@ -520,6 +520,9 @@ static void *cxlctl_set_feature(struct cxl_features_state *cxlfs,
> flags = le32_to_cpu(feat_in->flags);
> out_size = *out_len;
>
> + if (out_size < offsetof(struct fwctl_rpc_cxl_out, payload))
> + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> +
> struct fwctl_rpc_cxl_out *rpc_out __free(kvfree) =
> kvzalloc(out_size, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!rpc_out)