[PATCH net] s390/qeth: validate user buffer length in SNMP and ARP query ioctls

From: Hidayath Khan

Date: Thu Jul 30 2026 - 10:32:23 EST


qeth_snmp_command() and qeth_l3_arp_query() allocate a buffer sized by
a user-supplied length (udata_len) without checking a lower bound, then
set udata_offset to a fixed non-zero value and pass both to a reply
callback. The callback bounds-checks the copy with

if ((udata_len - udata_offset) < len)

Both fields are u32, so a udata_len smaller than udata_offset makes the
subtraction wrap and the check pass, and the following memcpy() writes
past the allocation. A udata_len of 0 also yields ZERO_SIZE_PTR from
kzalloc(), which the existing NULL check does not catch.

Reject buffers smaller than udata_offset before allocating, so the
callback subtraction can no longer underflow.

Fixes: 4a71df50047f ("qeth: new qeth device driver")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reviewed-by: Alexandra Winter <wintera@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hidayath Khan <hidayath@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c | 3 +++
drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c | 5 +++++
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c
index f18eed9df3c7..c3257b213360 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c
@@ -4710,6 +4710,9 @@ static int qeth_snmp_command(struct qeth_card *card, char __user *udata)
if (req_len > QETH_BUFSIZE)
return -EINVAL;

+ if (qinfo.udata_len < sizeof(struct qeth_snmp_ureq_hdr))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
iob = qeth_get_adapter_cmd(card, IPA_SETADP_SET_SNMP_CONTROL, req_len);
if (!iob)
return -ENOMEM;
diff --git a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c
index 1542bfc9f561..f1ac9950dcb4 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c
@@ -1415,6 +1415,11 @@ static int qeth_l3_arp_query(struct qeth_card *card, char __user *udata)
rc = -EFAULT;
goto out;
}
+
+ if (qinfo.udata_len < QETH_QARP_ENTRIES_OFFSET) {
+ rc = -EINVAL;
+ goto out;
+ }
qinfo.udata = kzalloc(qinfo.udata_len, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!qinfo.udata) {
rc = -ENOMEM;

base-commit: 58c1c294d685baf94801839334df20501711eb8e
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2.52.0