cxl/mbox: Clamp mailbox output allocation to the payload size

CXL_MEM_SEND_COMMAND bounds the user's in.size to the mailbox payload
size but leaves out.size unbounded, then cxl_mbox_cmd_ctor() calls
kvzalloc(out.size). A large out.size drives a huge allocation, above
INT_MAX it WARNs and taints, and with panic_on_warn=1 it panics.

The transport __cxl_pci_mbox_send_cmd() already clamps the response copy
to min(out.size, payload_size, device len), so the output buffer is
never written beyond payload_size. Clamp the allocation to payload_size
too, matching the RAW path.

Fixes: 583fa5e71c ("cxl/mem: Add basic IOCTL interface")
Reviewed-by: Kai-Heng Feng <kaihengf@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Koba Ko <kobak@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Richard Cheng <icheng@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260624144147.53997-1-icheng@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
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Richard Cheng
2026-06-29 08:40:06 -07:00
committed by Dave Jiang
parent dc59e4fea9
commit 8a13db9f89
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@@ -380,11 +380,7 @@ static int cxl_mbox_cmd_ctor(struct cxl_mbox_cmd *mbox_cmd,
}
}
/* Prepare to handle a full payload for variable sized output */
if (out_size == CXL_VARIABLE_PAYLOAD)
mbox_cmd->size_out = cxl_mbox->payload_size;
else
mbox_cmd->size_out = out_size;
mbox_cmd->size_out = min_t(size_t, out_size, cxl_mbox->payload_size);
if (mbox_cmd->size_out) {
mbox_cmd->payload_out = kvzalloc(mbox_cmd->size_out, GFP_KERNEL);