[PATCH v3 0/2] Input: synaptics-rmi4 - fix two device-controlled out-of-bounds writes
From: Wei Jie LAW
Date: Tue Aug 25 2026 - 02:10:46 EST
From: Wei Jie Law <98lawweijie@xxxxxxxxx>
Hi Dmitry,
While putting together a reproducer for an out-of-bounds bug in hid-rmi
([1]; a v4 fixing a hole in its own error path is being sent alongside
this series) I found two further memory-safety problems in the shared
RMI4 core. Both are driven entirely by data the *device* supplies --
its Page Description Table -- so they are reachable from a malicious USB
HID device with no code running on the victim, and equally from I2C and
SMBus RMI4 devices. Neither depends on the hid-rmi bug; they are in
drivers/input/rmi4/ and need fixing separately.
Both are present in mainline and in every stable tree I looked at.
1/2 is an off-by-one: RMI_PDT_INT_SOURCE_COUNT_MASK is 0x07, so
interrupt_source_count can be 7, but struct rmi_function declares
int irq[RMI_FN_MAX_IRQS] with RMI_FN_MAX_IRQS == 6 and two loops walk it
up to fn->num_of_irqs. irq[6] is the storage of the next member,
unsigned int irq_pos, so the function's position in the interrupt bitmap
is silently replaced with a Linux virq number. UBSAN flags all five
stores plus the read on the unregister path.
2/2 is a time-of-check/time-of-use across two reads of the device: the
PDT is scanned three times and re-read from the device every time,
irq_mask[] is sized by the counting scan and filled by the creating scan,
and nothing verifies the two agree. KASAN catches the resulting
set_bit() walking off the end of the flexible array at the tail of every
struct rmi_function.
2/2 also closes the device-driven route into an older problem in
rmi_create_function_irq(): irq_create_mapping() is called without
checking for failure, and it returns 0, not an error code. A device that
declares one interrupt in the counting scan and four in the creating scan
makes the mapping fail, and irq_set_chip_data(0, fn) plus
irq_set_chip_and_handler(0, &rmi_irq_chip, handle_simple_irq) then
replace the chip and flow handler of IRQ 0 -- the timer, on x86:
=========== /proc/interrupts, before ===========
0: 9 0 IO-APIC 2-edge timer
=========== /proc/interrupts, after ============
0: 9 0 rmi4 2 timer
error: hwirq 0x1 is too large for unknown-2
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 56 at kernel/irq/irqdomain.c:688
irq_domain_associate_locked+0x2b4/0x390
genirq: Flags mismatch irq 0. 00002000 (rmi4-00.fn01) vs. 00215a00 (timer)
With 2/2 applied the same device is rejected before any mapping is
attempted and IRQ 0 is untouched. A standalone check of the
irq_create_mapping() return value still looks worthwhile, but it is a
separate change and I did not want to bury it in this series.
How this was verified:
Linux v6.12.69 (CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS=y, booted slub_debug=FZPU) and
v6.12.105 (CONFIG_KASAN=y + CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE=y, CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS=y,
booted kasan_multi_shot -- generic KASAN otherwise reports only the first
error per boot), x86_64. An emulated Synaptics RMI4 device publishes a
Page Description Table crafted for each case. Two independent
reproducers, giving identical results:
- a /dev/uhid program -- no hardware, fully deterministic, and the easy
one to run;
- the same device over dummy_hcd + raw-gadget with Facedancer, so the
reports really traverse usbcore -> usbhid -> hid-rmi.
Each bug was exercised on its own cold boot, because heap state left by a
previous run changes what the out-of-bounds read returns and UBSAN
reports each call site only once per boot.
With both patches applied 1/2 produces no UBSAN reports and the same
device -- F01 declaring the full 7 interrupt sources -- probes normally,
and 2/2 fails the probe cleanly instead of corrupting the heap: three
consecutive runs of the growing-PDT device give three rejections
("F40: interrupt count changed between PDT scans (pos 1 + 6 > 1)",
"Function creation failed with code -22.") and zero KASAN reports,
against 14 from the unpatched core on the same boot, with no kobject or
refcount warnings; devices answering both scans consistently still probe
and report their real product id.
I am happy to post the reproducers, or to send them privately if you
would rather they did not go to a public list.
Changes in v3:
- 2/2: reject the function *before* allocating it, rather than
disposing of it afterwards. The v2 kfree() is correct on today's
stable trees, but it is wrong on mainline since
commit 58d42ec10b73 ("Input: rmi4 - refactor function allocation
and registration"): rmi_alloc_function() has since run
device_initialize() and dev_set_name() on fn->dev, so kfree() on
this path would leak the
name string and skip the kobject cleanup that device_initialize()
obligates. put_device() is no alternative: on the pre-refactor trees
the stable backports target it warns and leaks exactly as v1 did.
Checking pdt->interrupt_source_count and the running total against
data->irq_count before rmi_alloc_function() needs no cleanup on any
tree; the error message and the -EINVAL are unchanged.
- 1/2 is unchanged.
Changes in v2:
- 2/2: dispose of the rejected struct rmi_function with kfree() rather
than put_device(). The rejection happens before
rmi_register_function(), so device_initialize() has not run yet and
fn->dev is still all zeroes. put_device() on it warned twice --
kobject: '(null)' (00000000cfabc269): is not initialized, yet
kobject_put() is being called.
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 9 at lib/kobject.c:734 kobject_put+0x1cf/0x4b0
refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 9 at lib/refcount.c:28
refcount_warn_saturate+0xf2/0x150
-- and then leaked the function, because the saturated refcount stops
kref_put() from ever running the release. ftrace over 405 rejections
counted 810 rmi_create_function against 405 rmi_release_function, one
orphan per rejection, matching a +407 growth in kmalloc-1k. With
kfree() there are no warnings over 206 rejections and the slab count
is flat. Thanks to the Sashiko automated review for prompting a
closer look at that error path.
- 1/2 is unchanged.
The v1 posting is at
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-input/cover.1787549234.git.98lawweijie@xxxxxxxxx/
and v2 at
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-input/20260824122733.76321-1-98lawweijie@xxxxxxxxx/
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-input/20260824122708.76168-1-98lawweijie@xxxxxxxxx/
Wei Jie Law (2):
Input: synaptics-rmi4 - fix irq[] overrun with 7 interrupt sources
Input: synaptics-rmi4 - reject a PDT that grows between scans
drivers/input/rmi4/rmi_bus.h | 9 ++++++---
drivers/input/rmi4/rmi_driver.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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