Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] gpiolib: acpi: Fix potential out-of-boundary left shift

From: Bartosz Golaszewski

Date: Wed Jan 28 2026 - 04:02:40 EST


On Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:49:51 +0100, Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 02:43:00PM +0100, Mika Westerberg wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 12:06:30PM +0100, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> > GPIO Address Space handler gets a pointer to the in or out value.
>> > This value is supposed to be at least 64-bit, but it's not limited
>> > to be exactly 64-bit. When ACPI tables are being parsed, for
>> > the bigger Connection():s ACPICA creates a Buffer instead of regular
>> > Integer object. The Buffer exists as long as Namespace holds
>> > the certain Connection(). Hence we can access the necessary bits
>> > without worrying. On the other hand, the left shift, used in
>> > the code, is limited by 31 (on 32-bit platforms) and otherwise
>> > considered to be Undefined Behaviour. Also the code uses only
>> > the first 64-bit word for the value, and anything bigger than 63
>> > will be also subject to UB. Fix all this by modifying the code
>> > to correctly set or clear the respective bit in the bitmap constructed
>> > of 64-bit words.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Perfect, thanks!
>
>> Reviewed-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thank you!
>
> Bart, since you picked up the patch in the same lines of code, feel free to
> take this one on top (I think it's your gpio/for-current branch).
>

Don't you want a Fixes: and Cc: stable tags?

Bart