[PATCH] drm/amdgpu: bound ATOM bytecode cursor within the VBIOS image
From: Hari Mishal
Date: Thu Jul 30 2026 - 14:15:45 EST
The ATOM interpreter executes bytecode straight out of the VBIOS
image and multiple cursor-mutation paths are not bounded against the
image size:
- the main opcode fetch loop follows jump/skip targets anywhere
(jump targets are u16 offsets that can point past a small image),
- atom_op_switch scans for ATOM_CASE_END with no limit; a table that
omits the marker walks off the allocated BIOS copy,
- atom_op_processds advances the cursor by an unchecked u16 taken
from the table itself,
- the command-table base offset from the master table is used
unchecked before its header fields are read.
On a malformed/malicious VBIOS image, these reads could run past the
kmalloc'd BIOS buffer and the out-of-bounds bytes get interpreted as
further opcodes/operands.
atom_context::bios_size and the corresponding amdgpu_atom_parse()
parameter already exist in this tree; this uses that existing
infrastructure to bound the four sites above. atom_index_iio() is
already bounds-checked separately and is not touched here.
Assisted-by: gkh_clanker:t1000
Signed-off-by: Hari Mishal <harimishal1@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/atom.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/atom.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/atom.c
index e0e585f280e2..56c8a17edea1 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/atom.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/atom.c
@@ -1032,8 +1032,12 @@ static void atom_op_switch(atom_exec_context *ctx, int *ptr, int arg)
uint32_t src, val, target;
SDEBUG(" switch: ");
src = atom_get_src(ctx, attr, ptr);
- while (U16(*ptr) != ATOM_CASE_END)
+ while ((uint32_t)*ptr + 2 <= ctx->ctx->bios_size &&
+ U16(*ptr) != ATOM_CASE_END)
if (U8(*ptr) == ATOM_CASE_MAGIC) {
+ /* magic byte + immediate (up to 4) + 2-byte target */
+ if ((uint32_t)*ptr + 7 > ctx->ctx->bios_size)
+ break;
(*ptr)++;
SDEBUG(" case: ");
val =
@@ -1087,7 +1091,14 @@ static void atom_op_debug(atom_exec_context *ctx, int *ptr, int arg)
static void atom_op_processds(atom_exec_context *ctx, int *ptr, int arg)
{
- uint16_t val = U16(*ptr);
+ u16 val;
+
+ /* the skip count is bytecode-supplied; validate before reading it */
+ if ((uint32_t)*ptr + 2 > ctx->ctx->bios_size) {
+ ctx->abort = true;
+ return;
+ }
+ val = U16(*ptr);
(*ptr) += val + 2;
SDEBUG("PROCESSDS output: 0x%02X\n", val);
}
@@ -1237,6 +1248,13 @@ static int amdgpu_atom_execute_table_locked(struct atom_context *ctx, int index,
if (!base)
return -EINVAL;
+ /* the table offset itself comes from the VBIOS master table */
+ if ((uint32_t)base + ATOM_CT_CODE_PTR >= ctx->bios_size) {
+ DRM_ERROR("atombios command table %d offset 0x%x outside VBIOS image\n",
+ index, base);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
if (ctx->execute_depth >= ATOM_EXECUTE_MAX_DEPTH) {
DRM_ERROR("atombios command table nesting exceeded limit (%u)\n",
ATOM_EXECUTE_MAX_DEPTH);
@@ -1273,6 +1291,13 @@ static int amdgpu_atom_execute_table_locked(struct atom_context *ctx, int index,
debug_depth++;
while (1) {
+ /* jump/skip targets are bytecode-supplied; stay inside the image */
+ if ((uint32_t)ptr >= ctx->bios_size) {
+ DRM_ERROR("atombios cursor 0x%x outside VBIOS image (table %04X)\n",
+ ptr, base);
+ ret = -EINVAL;
+ goto free;
+ }
op = CU8(ptr++);
if (op < ATOM_OP_NAMES_CNT)
SDEBUG("%s @ 0x%04X\n", atom_op_names[op], ptr - 1);
--
2.43.0