[PATCH v2] cxl/features: Reject Get Feature count larger than the output buffer

From: Richard Cheng

Date: Wed Jun 24 2026 - 09:48:03 EST


cxlctl_get_feature() sizes its output buffer from the user's
fwctl_rpc.out_len, but the device is told to write
cxl_mbox_get_feat_in.count bytes into rpc_out->payload, which is a
separate user-controlled value. Nothing bounds count against out_len, so
a small out_len with a large count overflows the kvzalloc()'d buffer.
A heap OOB write reachable from FWCTL_RPC.

Reject requests where count exceeds the available payload room, before
allocating.

Fixes: 5908f3ed6dc2 ("cxl: Add support to handle user feature commands for get feature")
Reviewed-by: Kai-Heng Feng <kaihengf@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Koba Ko <kobak@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Richard Cheng <icheng@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changelog:

v1 -> v2:
- Drop the reproducer and trim the KASAN splat in the commit message
- Sent the reproducer as a regression test in ndctl separately.

Best regards,
Richard Cheng
---
drivers/cxl/core/features.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/cxl/core/features.c b/drivers/cxl/core/features.c
index 85185af46b72..9c714ee42a41 100644
--- a/drivers/cxl/core/features.c
+++ b/drivers/cxl/core/features.c
@@ -471,6 +471,10 @@ static void *cxlctl_get_feature(struct cxl_features_state *cxlfs,
if (!count)
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);

+ if (out_size < offsetof(struct fwctl_rpc_cxl_out, payload) ||
+ count > out_size - offsetof(struct fwctl_rpc_cxl_out, payload))
+ return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+
struct fwctl_rpc_cxl_out *rpc_out __free(kvfree) =
kvzalloc(out_size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!rpc_out)

base-commit: ef0c9f75a19532d7675384708fc8621e10850104
--
2.43.0