[PATCH] dma-buf: fix integer overflow in fill_sg_entry() for buffers >= 8GiB

From: Alex Mastro

Date: Tue Nov 25 2025 - 20:12:52 EST


fill_sg_entry() splits large DMA buffers into multiple scatter-gather
entries, each holding up to UINT_MAX bytes. When calculating the DMA
address for entries beyond the second one, the expression (i * UINT_MAX)
causes integer overflow due to 32-bit arithmetic.

This manifests when the input arg length >= 8 GiB results in looping for
i >= 2.

Fix by casting i to dma_addr_t before multiplication.

Fixes: 3aa31a8bb11e ("dma-buf: provide phys_vec to scatter-gather mapping routine")
Signed-off-by: Alex Mastro <amastro@xxxxxx>
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More color about how I discovered this in [1] for the commit at [2]:

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/aSZHO6otK0Heh+Qj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251120-dmabuf-vfio-v9-6-d7f71607f371@xxxxxxxxxx
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drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf-mapping.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf-mapping.c b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf-mapping.c
index b4819811a64a..b7352e609fbd 100644
--- a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf-mapping.c
+++ b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf-mapping.c
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ static struct scatterlist *fill_sg_entry(struct scatterlist *sgl, size_t length,
* does not require the CPU list for mapping or unmapping.
*/
sg_set_page(sgl, NULL, 0, 0);
- sg_dma_address(sgl) = addr + i * UINT_MAX;
+ sg_dma_address(sgl) = addr + (dma_addr_t)i * UINT_MAX;
sg_dma_len(sgl) = len;
sgl = sg_next(sgl);
}

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base-commit: 5415d887db0e059920cb5673a32cc4d66daa280f
change-id: 20251125-dma-buf-overflow-e3253f108e36

Best regards,
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Alex Mastro <amastro@xxxxxx>