[PATCH v2] ASoC: tas2781: bound firmware description string parsing

From: Pengpeng Hou

Date: Mon Jul 06 2026 - 13:01:04 EST


The TAS2781 firmware parser reads several variable-length description
strings with strlen() before checking that the string terminator is
present inside the firmware blob. A malformed firmware image without a
NUL terminator can therefore make the parser walk past the end of the
firmware buffer before the later size checks run.

Add a small bounded string-length helper and use it for all description
fields that are parsed from the firmware buffer. Keep the existing size
checks for the fixed bytes that follow each string.

Fixes: 915f5eadebd2 ("ASoC: tas2781: firmware lib")
Signed-off-by: Pengpeng Hou <pengpeng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes since v1:
- keep the bounded string-length result in signed variables, including
the calibration parser where Mark pointed out that `n` was unsigned
- add a Fixes tag

sound/soc/codecs/tas2781-fmwlib.c | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 57 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/soc/codecs/tas2781-fmwlib.c b/sound/soc/codecs/tas2781-fmwlib.c
index bd16d5326a23..dcbeb9618195 100644
--- a/sound/soc/codecs/tas2781-fmwlib.c
+++ b/sound/soc/codecs/tas2781-fmwlib.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
#include <linux/i2c.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/interrupt.h>
+#include <linux/limits.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/of.h>
#include <linux/of_irq.h>
@@ -1100,13 +1101,42 @@ static int tasdevice_load_block_kernel(
return 0;
}

+static int tasdevice_fw_strnlen(const struct firmware *fmw, int offset)
+{
+ const u8 *start;
+ const u8 *nul;
+ size_t remaining;
+ size_t len;
+
+ if (offset < 0 || offset >= fmw->size)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ start = fmw->data + offset;
+ remaining = fmw->size - offset;
+ nul = memchr(start, '\0', remaining);
+ if (!nul)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ len = nul - start;
+ if (len > INT_MAX)
+ return -EOVERFLOW;
+
+ return len;
+}
+
static int fw_parse_variable_hdr(struct tasdevice_priv
*tas_priv, struct tasdevice_dspfw_hdr *fw_hdr,
const struct firmware *fmw, int offset)
{
const unsigned char *buf = fmw->data;
- int len = strlen((char *)&buf[offset]);
+ int len;

+ len = tasdevice_fw_strnlen(fmw, offset);
+ if (len < 0) {
+ dev_err(tas_priv->dev, "%s: Description error\n", __func__);
+ offset = len;
+ goto out;
+ }
len++;

if (offset + len + 8 > fmw->size) {
@@ -1238,7 +1268,12 @@ static int fw_parse_data(struct tasdevice_fw *tas_fmw,
memcpy(img_data->name, &data[offset], 64);
offset += 64;

- n = strlen((char *)&data[offset]);
+ n = tasdevice_fw_strnlen(fmw, offset);
+ if (n < 0) {
+ dev_err(tas_fmw->dev, "%s: Description error\n", __func__);
+ offset = n;
+ goto out;
+ }
n++;
if (offset + n + 2 > fmw->size) {
dev_err(tas_fmw->dev, "%s: Description error\n", __func__);
@@ -1309,7 +1344,12 @@ static int fw_parse_program_data(struct tasdevice_priv *tas_priv,
}
offset += 64;

- n = strlen((char *)&buf[offset]);
+ n = tasdevice_fw_strnlen(fmw, offset);
+ if (n < 0) {
+ dev_err(tas_priv->dev, "Description err\n");
+ offset = n;
+ goto out;
+ }
/* skip '\0' and 5 unused bytes */
n += 6;
if (offset + n > fmw->size) {
@@ -1372,7 +1412,12 @@ static int fw_parse_configuration_data(
memcpy(config->name, &data[offset], 64);
offset += 64;

- n = strlen((char *)&data[offset]);
+ n = tasdevice_fw_strnlen(fmw, offset);
+ if (n < 0) {
+ dev_err(tas_priv->dev, "Description err\n");
+ offset = n;
+ goto out;
+ }
n += 15;
if (offset + n > fmw->size) {
dev_err(tas_priv->dev, "Description err\n");
@@ -2134,7 +2179,8 @@ static int fw_parse_calibration_data(struct tasdevice_priv *tas_priv,
{
struct tasdevice_calibration *calibration;
unsigned char *data = (unsigned char *)fmw->data;
- unsigned int i, n;
+ unsigned int i;
+ int n;

if (offset + 2 > fmw->size) {
dev_err(tas_priv->dev, "%s: Calibrations error\n", __func__);
@@ -2166,7 +2212,12 @@ static int fw_parse_calibration_data(struct tasdevice_priv *tas_priv,
calibration = &(tas_fmw->calibrations[i]);
offset += 64;

- n = strlen((char *)&data[offset]);
+ n = tasdevice_fw_strnlen(fmw, offset);
+ if (n < 0) {
+ dev_err(tas_priv->dev, "Description err\n");
+ offset = n;
+ goto out;
+ }
/* skip '\0' and 2 unused bytes */
n += 3;
if (offset + n > fmw->size) {
--
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