[PATCH 1/2] powerpc/powernv/memtrace: Fix out of bounds issue in memtrace mmap

Madhavan Srinivasan maddy at linux.ibm.com
Tue Jun 10 12:12:26 AEST 2025


From: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list at gmail.com>

memtrace mmap issue has an out of bounds issue. This patch fixes the by
checking that the requested mapping region size should stay within the
allocated region size.

Reported-by: Jonathan Greental <yonatan02greental at gmail.com>
Fixes: 08a022ad3dfa ("powerpc/powernv/memtrace: Allow mmaping trace buffers")
Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy at linux.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/memtrace.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/memtrace.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/memtrace.c
index 4ac9808e55a4..2ea30b343354 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/memtrace.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/memtrace.c
@@ -48,11 +48,15 @@ static ssize_t memtrace_read(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf,
 static int memtrace_mmap(struct file *filp, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 {
 	struct memtrace_entry *ent = filp->private_data;
+	unsigned long ent_nrpages = ent->size >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+	unsigned long vma_nrpages = vma_pages(vma);
 
-	if (ent->size < vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start)
+	/* The requested page offset should be within object's page count */
+	if (vma->vm_pgoff >= ent_nrpages)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	if (vma->vm_pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT >= ent->size)
+	/* The requested mapping range should remain within the bounds */
+	if (vma_nrpages > ent_nrpages - vma->vm_pgoff)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	vma->vm_page_prot = pgprot_noncached(vma->vm_page_prot);
-- 
2.46.0



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