[PATCH v2] kobject: optimize count first value
From: Edward Adam Davis
Date: Wed Sep 23 2026 - 07:03:32 EST
The user writes to the regular sysfs file "/sys/bus/acpi/uevent\000" is
as follows:
write(r0, &(0x7f0000000280)='add\x00', 0xff0a);
>From the parameters of write, we can know that: buffer is 'add\x00', and
buffer count is 0xff0a.
Since atomic_write_len was 0, kernfs_fop_write_iter() would silently truncate
the buffer count 0xff0a to PAGE_SIZE.
In kobject_action_type(), the strncmp() successfully stops at the null
terminator for "add". Then the code directly attempts to access index 4095
of the 4-byte string literal "add" via kobject_actions[action][count_first],
potentially hitting:
BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in kobject_action_type lib/kobject_uevent.c:86 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in kobject_synth_uevent+0x79d/0x7d0 lib/kobject_uevent.c:200
Read of size 1 at addr ffffffff8d72559f by task syz.0.17/5917
Call Trace:
kobject_action_type lib/kobject_uevent.c:86 [inline]
kobject_synth_uevent+0x79d/0x7d0 lib/kobject_uevent.c:200
bus_uevent_store+0x3d/0x90 drivers/base/bus.c:917
bus_attr_store+0x74/0xb0 drivers/base/bus.c:172
sysfs_kf_write+0xf2/0x150 fs/sysfs/file.c:145
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3e0/0x5f0 fs/kernfs/file.c:345
new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
vfs_write+0x6af/0x1050 fs/read_write.c:687
When the buffer does not contain parameters, we take the smaller of the
buffer string's actual length and the buffer count provided by the user
as count_first.
Fixes: 5c5daf657cb5 ("Driver core: exclude kobject_uevent.c for !CONFIG_HOTPLUG")
Reported-by: syzbot+9a321aea9d851b299486@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=9a321aea9d851b299486
Tested-by: syzbot+9a321aea9d851b299486@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Edward Adam Davis <eadavis@xxxxxxxx>
---
v1 -> v2: change to optimize kobject
lib/kobject_uevent.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lib/kobject_uevent.c b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
index ddbc4d7482d2..09dbee6d8815 100644
--- a/lib/kobject_uevent.c
+++ b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ static int kobject_action_type(const char *buf, size_t count,
count_first = args_start - buf;
args_start = args_start + 1;
} else
- count_first = count;
+ count_first = min_t(size_t, strnlen(buf, count), count);
for (action = 0; action < ARRAY_SIZE(kobject_actions); action++) {
if (strncmp(kobject_actions[action], buf, count_first) != 0)
--
2.43.0