[PATCH] mfd: cs42l43: Sanity check firmware size

From: Charles Keepax

Date: Fri May 08 2026 - 10:11:25 EST


Currently the code checks if a firmware was received, however it does
not verify that the firmware size is larger than the firmware header. As
the firmware pointer is dereferenced as a pointer to the header
structure this could lead to an out of bounds memory access. Add the
missing check.

Fixes: ace6d1448138 ("mfd: cs42l43: Add support for cs42l43 core driver")
Signed-off-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/mfd/cs42l43.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mfd/cs42l43.c b/drivers/mfd/cs42l43.c
index 166881751e698..ed6d93893de04 100644
--- a/drivers/mfd/cs42l43.c
+++ b/drivers/mfd/cs42l43.c
@@ -722,7 +722,7 @@ static void cs42l43_mcu_load_firmware(const struct firmware *firmware, void *con
unsigned int loadaddr, val;
int ret;

- if (!firmware) {
+ if (!firmware || firmware->size < sizeof(*hdr)) {
dev_err(cs42l43->dev, "Failed to load firmware\n");
cs42l43->firmware_error = -ENODEV;
goto err;
--
2.47.3