[PATCH] ACPI: pfr_update: zero-initialize capability query result

From: Karl Mehltretter

Date: Thu Aug 27 2026 - 01:39:21 EST


query_capability() copies four ACPI buffers into fixed-size fields using
the firmware-supplied lengths. The existing overflow guard rejects
oversized buffers, but shorter buffers are accepted and leave trailing
bytes of the stack-allocated cap_hdr uninitialized. PFRU_IOC_QUERY_CAP
then copies the entire structure to userspace.

Zero-initialize cap_hdr before querying the firmware. This preserves the
existing handling of short firmware responses while preventing disclosure
of kernel stack data. Oversized buffers remain rejected.

A QEMU _DSM returning one-byte buffers reproduced nonzero stack suffix
bytes in all four fields. With this change, the ioctl still succeeds and
each unwritten suffix is zero-filled, while 64-byte buffers continue to
return -EINVAL.

Fixes: 0db89fa243e5 ("ACPI: Introduce Platform Firmware Runtime Update device driver")
Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/1a001e1fee9.637da6dc3533246.238498880682901704%40a0rg.com
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/acpi/pfr_update.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/pfr_update.c b/drivers/acpi/pfr_update.c
index 9afd2c52fdbd..98ace679601b 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/pfr_update.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/pfr_update.c
@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ static int start_update(int action, struct pfru_device *pfru_dev)

static long pfru_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
{
- struct pfru_update_cap_info cap_hdr;
+ struct pfru_update_cap_info cap_hdr = {};
struct pfru_device *pfru_dev = to_pfru_dev(file);
void __user *p = (void __user *)arg;
u32 rev;
--
2.39.5 (Apple Git-154)