[PATCH] misc: ibmasm: fix OOB MMIO read in ibmasm_handle_mouse_interrupt()
From: Tyllis Xu
Date: Sun Mar 08 2026 - 01:22:14 EST
ibmasm_handle_mouse_interrupt() performs an out-of-bounds MMIO read
when the queue reader or writer index from hardware exceeds
REMOTE_QUEUE_SIZE (60).
A compromised service processor can trigger this by writing an
out-of-range value to the reader or writer MMIO register before
asserting an interrupt. Since writer is re-read from hardware on
every loop iteration, it can also be set to an out-of-range value
after the loop has already started.
The root cause is that get_queue_reader() and get_queue_writer() return
raw readl() values that are passed directly into get_queue_entry(),
which computes:
queue_begin + reader * sizeof(struct remote_input)
with no bounds check. This unchecked MMIO address is then passed to
memcpy_fromio(), reading 8 bytes from unintended device registers.
For sufficiently large values the address falls outside the PCI BAR
mapping entirely, triggering a machine check exception.
Fix by checking both indices against REMOTE_QUEUE_SIZE at the top of
the loop body, before any call to get_queue_entry(). On an out-of-range
value, reset the reader register to 0 via set_queue_reader() before
breaking, so that normal queue operation can resume if the corrupted
hardware state is transient.
Reported-by: Yuhao Jiang <danisjiang@xxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 278d72ae8803 ("[PATCH] ibmasm driver: redesign handling of remote control events")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: ychen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Tyllis Xu <LivelyCarpet87@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/misc/ibmasm/remote.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/misc/ibmasm/remote.c b/drivers/misc/ibmasm/remote.c
index ec816d3b38cb..521531738c9a 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/ibmasm/remote.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/ibmasm/remote.c
@@ -177,6 +177,11 @@ void ibmasm_handle_mouse_interrupt(struct service_processor *sp)
writer = get_queue_writer(sp);
while (reader != writer) {
+ if (reader >= REMOTE_QUEUE_SIZE || writer >= REMOTE_QUEUE_SIZE) {
+ set_queue_reader(sp, 0);
+ break;
+ }
+
memcpy_fromio(&input, get_queue_entry(sp, reader),
sizeof(struct remote_input));
--
2.43.0