[PATCH v2] PCI: Reject negative resource alignment order
From: shao.mingyin
Date: Mon Nov 09 2026 - 05:56:08 EST
From: Shao Mingyin <shao.mingyin@xxxxxxxxxx>
pci_specified_resource_alignment() parses the pci=resource_alignment=
boot parameter and rejects only orders above 63. A negative order, such
as "pci=resource_alignment=-5@...", passes that check and later reaches
"align = 1ULL << align_order" with a negative shift count, which is
undefined behavior; on x86 the 64-bit shift count is masked to six bits,
silently producing a 2^59-byte alignment that mis-aligns (or fails to
align) the affected IOV resources.
align_order is a bit order, so parse it with %u. vsscanf() does not
accept a sign for %u, so a negative order no longer converts: the
parameter is reported as invalid and no alignment is applied. Orders
above 63 are still rejected and fall back to the page-size alignment.
Fixes: 6534aac198b5 ("PCI: Bounds-check command-line resource alignment requests")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Shao Mingyin <shao.mingyin@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
This supersedes 1/5 of the v1 series; 2/5-5/5 are unchanged.
v2:
- parse the order with %u instead of %d, as Ilpo Järvinen suggested; a
bit order is unsigned, and this also removes the explicit < 0 test
added by v1
- pr_err() prints the order with %u as well
- note the resulting behaviour: vsscanf() does not accept a sign for
%u, so a negative order fails to parse instead of being clamped
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261107002311316z2o2PFtFGoXh-VbqXtTGg@xxxxxxxxxx/
Tested on 7.3.0-next-20261030 (QEMU/TCG guest) with the
pci=resource_alignment= boot parameter and a QEMU e1000 NIC; no extra
hardware is needed.
Booting with pci=resource_alignment=-5@pci:8086:100e, the unpatched
kernel parses -5 and "align = 1ULL << align_order" shifts by -5 (masked
to 2^59 on x86-64); the e1000 BAR is resized to 2^59 bytes, which cannot
be assigned, and the e1000 fails to probe. With this patch "-5" does not
convert and the parameter is rejected:
unpatched patched
requesting alignment to PCI: Can't parse resource_alignment
0x800000000000000 parameter: -5@pci:8086:100e
e1000 probe failed, no eth0 e1000 eth0 probes
drivers/pci/pci.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci.c b/drivers/pci/pci.c
index bca3a5d84cd9..e3f701ff9881 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/pci.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/pci.c
@@ -6585,7 +6585,8 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(resource_alignment_lock);
static resource_size_t pci_specified_resource_alignment(struct pci_dev *dev,
bool *resize)
{
- int align_order, count;
+ unsigned int align_order;
+ int count;
resource_size_t align = pcibios_default_alignment();
const char *p;
int ret;
@@ -6602,11 +6603,11 @@ static resource_size_t pci_specified_resource_alignment(struct pci_dev *dev,
while (*p) {
count = 0;
- if (sscanf(p, "%d%n", &align_order, &count) == 1 &&
+ if (sscanf(p, "%u%n", &align_order, &count) == 1 &&
p[count] == '@') {
p += count + 1;
if (align_order > 63) {
- pr_err("PCI: Invalid requested alignment (order %d)\n",
+ pr_err("PCI: Invalid requested alignment (order %u)\n",
align_order);
align_order = PAGE_SHIFT;
}