Re: [PATCH v2] early: usb: xhci-dbc: Handle out of bounds xhci-xdbc capability

From: Mathias Nyman

Date: Tue Sep 15 2026 - 09:03:45 EST


On 9/15/26 10:40, Umang Jain wrote:
Currently, the early xhci-dbc assumes that the entire PCIe memory IO
can be entirely mapped within the fixed boot time mappings
dictated by NR_FIX_BTMAPS. This patch handles the case where the PCIe
memory IO size can be larger than the fixed boot time mappings and
query the xhci debug extended capability in xdbc_map_pci_mmio().

This commit ensures that the xHCI debug capability can still be queried
when the PCIe memory IO space exceeds the fixmap size. In this scenario,
the base address is mapped uptil fixmap size and debug capabilities are
queried thereafter. Iterating over the entire PCIe BAR address size is
left for future improvement as and when, such a case arises.

Additionally, this brings the need to track the early_ioremap() mapped
size separately hence, introduce additional struct member xhci_base_length
in struct xdbc_state.

Signed-off-by: Umang Jain <uajain@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v2:
- Commit message update
- Changed and tested behaviour for mapping only first fixmap_size
of PCIe Base address size instead of iteration over entire BAR size
- Updated comments
- Updated XDBC MAPPING SIZE to 64

Thanks, this starts to look good.

Some small fixes and cleanups still needed.


v1:
- https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260720191249.1272328-1-uajain@xxxxxxxxxx/
---
drivers/usb/early/xhci-dbc.c | 78 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
drivers/usb/early/xhci-dbc.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/early/xhci-dbc.c b/drivers/usb/early/xhci-dbc.c
index 41118bba9197..d2e6ae410b0d 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/early/xhci-dbc.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/early/xhci-dbc.c
@@ -35,10 +35,23 @@ static bool early_console_keep;
static inline void xdbc_trace(const char *fmt, ...) { }
#endif /* XDBC_TRACE */
+/* Size of xHCI debug capability structure as per section 7.6.8 of xHCI spec. */
+#define XDBC_MAPPING_SIZE 64
+
+enum xdbc_capability_flags {
+ XDBC_CAP_FLAG_NONE = 0,
+ XDBC_CAP_FLAG_LEGACY = 1 << 0,
+ XDBC_CAP_FLAG_PROTOCOL = 1 << 1,
+ XDBC_CAP_FLAG_DEBUG = 1 << 2,
+};
+
static void __iomem * __init xdbc_map_pci_mmio(u32 bus, u32 dev, u32 func)
{
- u64 val64, sz64, mask64;
+ u64 val64, sz64, mask64, fixmap_size, mapped_size;

mapped_size in no longer needed. Can be removed

+ enum xdbc_capability_flags cap_flags = XDBC_CAP_FLAG_NONE;
+ bool found_all_caps = false;
void __iomem *base;
+ int offset;
u32 val, sz;
u8 byte;
@@ -85,7 +98,56 @@ static void __iomem * __init xdbc_map_pci_mmio(u32 bus, u32 dev, u32 func)
xdbc.xhci_start = val64;
xdbc.xhci_length = sz64;
- base = early_ioremap(val64, sz64);
+
+ fixmap_size = NR_FIX_BTMAPS << PAGE_SHIFT;
+ if (sz64 < fixmap_size) {
+ xdbc.xhci_base_length = sz64;
+ return early_ioremap(val64, sz64);
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Base address size is greater than fixed size boot time mappings
+ * hence, map maximum allowed fixmap size from base address and
+ * determine if the required extended capabilities lies within the
+ * fixmap.
+ */
+ base = early_ioremap(val64, fixmap_size);

if (!base)
return NULL;

+ offset = xhci_find_next_ext_cap(base, 0, 0);
+ mapped_size = fixmap_size;

mapped_size not used

+
+ while (offset < fixmap_size) {
+ val = readl(base + offset);
+ switch (XHCI_EXT_CAPS_ID(val)) {
+ case XHCI_EXT_CAPS_DEBUG:
+ if (offset + XDBC_MAPPING_SIZE < fixmap_size)
+ cap_flags |= XDBC_CAP_FLAG_DEBUG;
+ break;
+ case XHCI_EXT_CAPS_PROTOCOL:
+ cap_flags |= XDBC_CAP_FLAG_PROTOCOL;
+ break;
+ case XHCI_EXT_CAPS_LEGACY:
+ cap_flags |= XDBC_CAP_FLAG_LEGACY;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ if ((cap_flags & XDBC_CAP_FLAG_DEBUG) &&
+ (cap_flags & XDBC_CAP_FLAG_PROTOCOL) &&
+ (cap_flags & XDBC_CAP_FLAG_LEGACY)) {
+ found_all_caps = true;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ offset = xhci_find_next_ext_cap(base, offset, 0);
+ if (!offset)
+ break;
+ }
+
+ if (found_all_caps) {
+ xdbc.xhci_base_length = fixmap_size;
+ } else {
+ xdbc.xhci_base_length = 0;
+ base = NULL;

we need to early_iounmap() in this fail path before returning NULL.

+ }
return base;
}

Thanks
Mathias