[PATCH 5/6] platform/wmi: Extend wmidev_query_block() to reject undersized data

From: Armin Wolf

Date: Mon Apr 06 2026 - 17:20:04 EST


WMI drivers using the buffer-based WMI API are expected to reject
undersized query results. Extend wmidev_query_block() to enable
the WMI driver core to perform this size check internally.

Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@xxxxxx>
---
drivers/platform/wmi/core.c | 10 ++++++----
drivers/platform/x86/intel/wmi/sbl-fw-update.c | 7 +------
drivers/platform/x86/wmi-bmof.c | 2 +-
include/linux/wmi.h | 3 ++-
4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/platform/wmi/core.c b/drivers/platform/wmi/core.c
index a1a612f33233..87b0e54dde5a 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/wmi/core.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/wmi/core.c
@@ -565,13 +565,15 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(wmidev_block_query);
* @wdev: A wmi bus device from a driver
* @instance: Instance index
* @out: WMI buffer to fill
+ * @min_size: Minimum size of the result data in bytes
*
- * Query a WMI data block, the caller must free the resulting data inside @out.
- * Said data is guaranteed to be aligned on a 8-byte boundary.
+ * Query a WMI data block, the caller must free the resulting data inside @out
+ * using kfree(). Said data is guaranteed to be aligned on a 8-byte boundary.
*
* Return: 0 on success or a negative error code on failure.
*/
-int wmidev_query_block(struct wmi_device *wdev, u8 instance, struct wmi_buffer *out)
+int wmidev_query_block(struct wmi_device *wdev, u8 instance, struct wmi_buffer *out,
+ size_t min_size)
{
union acpi_object *obj;
int ret;
@@ -580,7 +582,7 @@ int wmidev_query_block(struct wmi_device *wdev, u8 instance, struct wmi_buffer *
if (!obj)
return -EIO;

- ret = wmi_unmarshal_acpi_object(obj, out, 0);
+ ret = wmi_unmarshal_acpi_object(obj, out, min_size);
kfree(obj);

return ret;
diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/intel/wmi/sbl-fw-update.c b/drivers/platform/x86/intel/wmi/sbl-fw-update.c
index 3716ccaaed6a..62c9c7f1842b 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/intel/wmi/sbl-fw-update.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/intel/wmi/sbl-fw-update.c
@@ -28,15 +28,10 @@ static int get_fwu_request(struct device *dev, u32 *out)
__le32 *result;
int ret;

- ret = wmidev_query_block(to_wmi_device(dev), 0, &buffer);
+ ret = wmidev_query_block(to_wmi_device(dev), 0, &buffer, sizeof(*result));
if (ret < 0)
return ret;

- if (buffer.length < sizeof(*result)) {
- kfree(buffer.data);
- return -ENODATA;
- }
-
result = buffer.data;
*out = le32_to_cpu(*result);
kfree(result);
diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/wmi-bmof.c b/drivers/platform/x86/wmi-bmof.c
index e3a126de421b..6623cf60e4b4 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/wmi-bmof.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/wmi-bmof.c
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ static int wmi_bmof_probe(struct wmi_device *wdev, const void *context)
if (!buffer)
return -ENOMEM;

- ret = wmidev_query_block(wdev, 0, buffer);
+ ret = wmidev_query_block(wdev, 0, buffer, 0);
if (ret < 0)
return ret;

diff --git a/include/linux/wmi.h b/include/linux/wmi.h
index 858398beb01a..da94580572a9 100644
--- a/include/linux/wmi.h
+++ b/include/linux/wmi.h
@@ -73,7 +73,8 @@ int wmidev_invoke_method(struct wmi_device *wdev, u8 instance, u32 method_id,
int wmidev_invoke_procedure(struct wmi_device *wdev, u8 instance, u32 method_id,
const struct wmi_buffer *in);

-int wmidev_query_block(struct wmi_device *wdev, u8 instance, struct wmi_buffer *out);
+int wmidev_query_block(struct wmi_device *wdev, u8 instance, struct wmi_buffer *out,
+ size_t min_size);

int wmidev_set_block(struct wmi_device *wdev, u8 instance, const struct wmi_buffer *in);

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