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authorJohan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>2025-08-29 15:21:52 +0200
committerSudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>2025-09-02 11:23:42 +0100
commit572ce546390d1b7c99b16c38cae1b680c716216c (patch)
tree004dac67b9d3835aa0a585ae4000501645a54939
parent72ca981dba5e98c2b1c2956016cc4be934d9fbea (diff)
firmware: arm_scmi: quirk: Prevent writes to string constants
The quirk version range is typically a string constant and must not be modified (e.g. as it may be stored in read-only memory). Attempting to do so can trigger faults such as: | Unable to handle kernel write to read-only memory at virtual | address ffffc036d998a947 Update the range parsing so that it operates on a copy of the version range string, and mark all the quirk strings as const to reduce the risk of introducing similar future issues. Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220437 Fixes: 487c407d57d6 ("firmware: arm_scmi: Add common framework to handle firmware quirks") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.16 Cc: Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com> Reported-by: Jan Palus <jpalus@fastmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> Message-Id: <20250829132152.28218-1-johan@kernel.org> [sudeep.holla: minor commit message rewording; switch to cleanup helpers] Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
-rw-r--r--drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/quirks.c15
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/quirks.c b/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/quirks.c
index 03960aca3610..03848283c2a0 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/quirks.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/quirks.c
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@
*/
#include <linux/ctype.h>
+#include <linux/cleanup.h>
#include <linux/device.h>
#include <linux/export.h>
#include <linux/hashtable.h>
@@ -89,9 +90,9 @@
struct scmi_quirk {
bool enabled;
const char *name;
- char *vendor;
- char *sub_vendor_id;
- char *impl_ver_range;
+ const char *vendor;
+ const char *sub_vendor_id;
+ const char *impl_ver_range;
u32 start_range;
u32 end_range;
struct static_key_false *key;
@@ -217,7 +218,7 @@ static unsigned int scmi_quirk_signature(const char *vend, const char *sub_vend)
static int scmi_quirk_range_parse(struct scmi_quirk *quirk)
{
- const char *last, *first = quirk->impl_ver_range;
+ const char *last, *first __free(kfree) = NULL;
size_t len;
char *sep;
int ret;
@@ -228,8 +229,12 @@ static int scmi_quirk_range_parse(struct scmi_quirk *quirk)
if (!len)
return 0;
+ first = kmemdup(quirk->impl_ver_range, len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!first)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
last = first + len - 1;
- sep = strchr(quirk->impl_ver_range, '-');
+ sep = strchr(first, '-');
if (sep)
*sep = '\0';