Re: [PATCH] irqchip/mst-intc: reject ranges beyond saved state capacity

From: Thomas Gleixner

Date: Thu Aug 20 2026 - 04:17:52 EST


On Wed, Jul 22 2026 at 12:14, Pengpeng Hou wrote:
> The inclusive Device Tree IRQ range determines nr_irqs. Suspend and
> resume then use nr_irqs to walk the fixed saved_status array, which has
> MST_INTC_MAX_IRQS entries. A descending range underflows the unsigned
> subtraction, while a range wider than 64 entries exceeds that array.

TBH, this is confusing at best. The problem is not the suspend/resume
implication. The problem is that there is no validation of start/end to
begin with. Whether that causes an out of bounds access somewhere down
the road is immaterial.

> Reject both forms before deriving nr_irqs.

Both forms of what?

Something like this:

The interrupt range for the driver is retrieved from the device tree,
but lacks any form of validation.

As a consequence a malformed device tree can result in out of bound
accesses when the range exceeds MST_INTC_MAX_IRQS.

Add the missing sanity checks.

> Signed-off-by: Pengpeng Hou <pengpeng@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Lacks a "Fixes:" tag.

> ---
> drivers/irqchip/irq-mst-intc.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-mst-intc.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-mst-intc.c
> index b5335f6fd6d6..1475335d668d 100644
> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-mst-intc.c
> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-mst-intc.c
> @@ -263,6 +263,10 @@ static int __init mst_intc_of_init(struct device_node *dn,
> of_property_read_u32_index(dn, "mstar,irqs-map-range", 1, &irq_end))
> return -EINVAL;
>
> + if (irq_end < irq_start ||
> + irq_end - irq_start >= MST_INTC_MAX_IRQS)

No line break required.

> + return -EINVAL;
> +
> cd = kzalloc_obj(*cd);
> if (!cd)
> return -ENOMEM;