[PATCH v2 08/20] ACPI: riscv: validate interrupt controller MADT entries

From: Jiale Yao

Date: Wed Oct 28 2026 - 23:56:42 EST


The PLIC and APLIC MADT callbacks cast generic subtable headers to
fixed-size records before checking that the complete records are
present. Truncated firmware entries can therefore cause out-of-bounds
field reads.

Reject entries that do not contain the complete controller-specific
structure before registering an interrupt controller.

Fixes: e77b8dc02a1c ("ACPI: RISC-V: Initialize GSI mapping structures")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jiale Yao <yaojiale02@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/acpi/riscv/irq.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/riscv/irq.c b/drivers/acpi/riscv/irq.c
index da2c42e0ebfd..1f6fee5c5746 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/riscv/irq.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/riscv/irq.c
@@ -220,6 +220,9 @@ static int __init riscv_acpi_aplic_parse_madt(union acpi_subtable_headers *heade
{
struct acpi_madt_aplic *aplic = (struct acpi_madt_aplic *)header;

+ if (BAD_MADT_ENTRY(aplic, end))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
return riscv_acpi_register_ext_intc(aplic->gsi_base, aplic->num_sources, aplic->num_idcs,
aplic->id, ACPI_RISCV_IRQCHIP_APLIC);
}
@@ -229,6 +232,9 @@ static int __init riscv_acpi_plic_parse_madt(union acpi_subtable_headers *header
{
struct acpi_madt_plic *plic = (struct acpi_madt_plic *)header;

+ if (BAD_MADT_ENTRY(plic, end))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
return riscv_acpi_register_ext_intc(plic->gsi_base, plic->num_irqs, 0,
plic->id, ACPI_RISCV_IRQCHIP_PLIC);
}
--
2.34.1