[PATCH v2] char: hpet: prevent hard-IRQ divide-by-zero in hpet_interrupt() via HPET_IRQFREQ
From: Hui Peng
Date: Sun Sep 20 2026 - 22:20:31 EST
In hpet_ioctl_common(), HPET_IRQFREQ computes the timer period as:
devp->hd_ireqfreq = hpet_time_div(hpetp, arg);
where hpet_time_div() returns div64_ul(hpetp->hp_tick_freq + (arg >> 1),
arg). Whenever arg > 2 * hpetp->hp_tick_freq, integer division truncates
to 0 and stores devp->hd_ireqfreq = 0.
Although hpet_ioctl_ieon() (HPET_IE_ON) checks if (!devp->hd_ireqfreq)
before enabling the timer interrupt, HPET_IRQFREQ neither rejects
updates while HPET_IE is already active nor checks whether
hpet_time_div(hpetp, arg) evaluates to 0. As a result, arming the timer
with a valid frequency (for example, HPET_IRQFREQ with 1000 Hz followed
by HPET_IE_ON) and then calling HPET_IRQFREQ with a large frequency (such
as 0xffffffffUL) overwrites devp->hd_ireqfreq with 0 while the timer
interrupt is active. When the next interrupt fires, hpet_interrupt()
reads t = devp->hd_ireqfreq (0) and computes base = mc % t, crashing the
kernel in hard-IRQ context:
Oops: divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0
RIP: 0010:hpet_interrupt+0x20f/0x360
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
__handle_irq_event_percpu+0x102/0x400
handle_irq_event+0xa6/0x1c0
handle_level_irq+0x205/0x5e0
__common_interrupt+0x60/0x130
common_interrupt+0x7a/0x90
</IRQ>
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
Reject HPET_IRQFREQ with -EBUSY when HPET_IE is set in devp->hd_flags,
and return -EINVAL when hpet_time_div(hpetp, arg) evaluates to 0.
Tested in QEMU (-global hpet.hpet-intcap=0x0c24 with noapic) by opening
/dev/hpet and calling ioctl(fd, HPET_IRQFREQ, 1000), ioctl(fd,
HPET_IE_ON, 0), and ioctl(fd, HPET_IRQFREQ, 0xffffffffUL): on the unfixed
kernel this immediately triggers the divide error panic in
hpet_interrupt(), whereas on the fixed kernel HPET_IRQFREQ returns -EBUSY
while HPET_IE is enabled and -EINVAL when hpet_time_div(hpetp, arg) is 0.
Fixes: ba3f213f8a31 ("[PATCH] HPET: make frequency calculations 32 bit safe")
Fixes: 273ef9509b79 ("drivers/char/hpet.c: fix periodic-emulation for delayed interrupts")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Hui Peng <benquike@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v2:
- Add Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and include the QEMU test procedure and
oops trace in the commit description per Greg Kroah-Hartman.
- Add Fixes: 273ef9509b79 ("drivers/char/hpet.c: fix periodic-emulation
for delayed interrupts") for the mc % t division in hpet_interrupt().
drivers/char/hpet.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/char/hpet.c b/drivers/char/hpet.c
index 285c6037417a..ada95872e148 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hpet.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hpet.c
@@ -625,13 +625,18 @@ hpet_ioctl_common(struct hpet_dev *devp, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg,
devp->hd_flags &= ~HPET_PERIODIC;
break;
case HPET_IRQFREQ:
+ if (devp->hd_flags & HPET_IE) {
+ err = -EBUSY;
+ break;
+ }
+
if ((arg > hpet_max_freq) &&
!capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE)) {
err = -EACCES;
break;
}
- if (!arg) {
+ if (!arg || !hpet_time_div(hpetp, arg)) {
err = -EINVAL;
break;
}
--
2.49.0