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APEI/GHES: ARM processor Error: don't go past allocated memory
authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Thu, 8 Jan 2026 11:35:03 +0000 (12:35 +0100)
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:03:29 +0000 (17:03 +0100)
commit87880af2d24e62a84ed19943dbdd524f097172f2
tree47fcccfee552cecb4b2da6e38977d2d6bb31269a
parentcae444e0e2f1a843a34299cbb70875b05b9b6730
APEI/GHES: ARM processor Error: don't go past allocated memory

If the BIOS generates a very small ARM Processor Error, or
an incomplete one, the current logic will fail to deferrence

err->section_length
and
ctx_info->size

Add checks to avoid that. With such changes, such GHESv2
records won't cause OOPSes like this:

[    1.492129] Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000005 [#1]  SMP
[    1.495449] Modules linked in:
[    1.495820] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 9 Comm: kworker/0:0 Not tainted 6.18.0-rc1-00017-gabadcc3553dd-dirty #18 PREEMPT
[    1.496125] Hardware name: QEMU QEMU Virtual Machine, BIOS unknown 02/02/2022
[    1.496433] Workqueue: kacpi_notify acpi_os_execute_deferred
[    1.496967] pstate: 814000c5 (Nzcv daIF +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[    1.497199] pc : log_arm_hw_error+0x5c/0x200
[    1.497380] lr : ghes_handle_arm_hw_error+0x94/0x220

0xffff8000811c5324 is in log_arm_hw_error (../drivers/ras/ras.c:75).
70 err_info = (struct cper_arm_err_info *)(err + 1);
71 ctx_info = (struct cper_arm_ctx_info *)(err_info + err->err_info_num);
72 ctx_err = (u8 *)ctx_info;
73
74 for (n = 0; n < err->context_info_num; n++) {
75 sz = sizeof(struct cper_arm_ctx_info) + ctx_info->size;
76 ctx_info = (struct cper_arm_ctx_info *)((long)ctx_info + sz);
77 ctx_len += sz;
78 }
79

and similar ones while trying to access section_length on an
error dump with too small size.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>
[ rjw: Subject tweaks ]
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/7fd9f38413be05ee2d7cfdb0dc31ea2274cf1a54.1767871950.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
drivers/ras/ras.c