[PATCH] RAS: Fix out-of-range section_length in ARM processor error handling

From: Abbott Liu

Date: Thu Aug 20 2026 - 09:20:17 EST


Commit 87880af2d24e ("APEI/GHES: ARM processor Error: don't go past
allocated memory") added bounds checks for malformed ARM processor
error records but contained several bugs:

- In log_arm_hw_error(), the ctx_info bounds check is inverted. The
condition `sz + (long)ctx_info - (long)err >= err->section_length`
adds ctx_info->size when the context header is already past the end
of the section instead of when it is within bounds. So change the
comparison to <=.

- The vsei_len < 0 error path did not verify the pei_len and ctx_len.
When vsei_len is negative, section_length is too small to hold the
full record, yet pei_len and ctx_len were derived from
err_info_num/context_info_num and may describe regions beyond the
(long)err .. err + section_length buffer. To prevent trace_arm_event
from reading past the allocated record, sanitize the parameters:
move the cpu lookup above this path so it is available for tracing,
recalculate ctx_len and pei_len based on section_length, limit them,
set the corresponding pointers to NULL and lengths to 0 when there
is no remaining space.

Fixes: 87880af2d24e ("APEI/GHES: ARM processor Error: don't go past allocated memory")
Signed-off-by: Abbott Liu <liuwenliang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/ras/ras.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/ras/ras.c b/drivers/ras/ras.c
index 03df3db62334..e37bf11d0926 100644
--- a/drivers/ras/ras.c
+++ b/drivers/ras/ras.c
@@ -58,10 +58,10 @@ void log_arm_hw_error(struct cper_sec_proc_arm *err, const u8 sev)
struct cper_arm_err_info *err_info;
struct cper_arm_ctx_info *ctx_info;
u8 *ven_err_data;
- u32 ctx_len = 0;
+ s32 ctx_len = 0;
int n, sz, cpu;
s32 vsei_len;
- u32 pei_len;
+ s32 pei_len;
u8 *pei_err, *ctx_err;

pei_len = sizeof(struct cper_arm_err_info) * err->err_info_num;
@@ -74,27 +74,37 @@ void log_arm_hw_error(struct cper_sec_proc_arm *err, const u8 sev)
for (n = 0; n < err->context_info_num; n++) {
sz = sizeof(struct cper_arm_ctx_info);

- if (sz + (long)ctx_info - (long)err >= err->section_length)
+ if (sz + (long)ctx_info - (long)err <= err->section_length)
sz += ctx_info->size;
-
ctx_info = (struct cper_arm_ctx_info *)((long)ctx_info + sz);
ctx_len += sz;
}

+ cpu = GET_LOGICAL_INDEX(err->mpidr);
+ if (cpu < 0)
+ cpu = -1;
+
vsei_len = err->section_length - (sizeof(struct cper_sec_proc_arm) + pei_len + ctx_len);
if (vsei_len < 0) {
pr_warn(FW_BUG "section length: %d\n", err->section_length);
pr_warn(FW_BUG "section length is too small\n");
pr_warn(FW_BUG "firmware-generated error record is incorrect\n");
vsei_len = 0;
- }
- ven_err_data = (u8 *)ctx_info;
-
- cpu = GET_LOGICAL_INDEX(err->mpidr);
- if (cpu < 0)
- cpu = -1;
-
- trace_arm_event(err, pei_err, pei_len, ctx_err, ctx_len,
+ ven_err_data = NULL;
+ ctx_len = err->section_length - (sizeof(struct cper_sec_proc_arm) + pei_len);
+ if (ctx_len < 0) {
+ ctx_len = 0;
+ ctx_err = NULL;
+ pei_len = err->section_length - sizeof(struct cper_sec_proc_arm);
+ if (pei_len < 0) {
+ pei_len = 0;
+ pei_err = NULL;
+ }
+ }
+ } else
+ ven_err_data = (u8 *)ctx_info;
+
+ trace_arm_event(err, pei_err, (u32)pei_len, ctx_err, (u32)ctx_len,
ven_err_data, (u32)vsei_len, sev, cpu);
}

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