[RFC] net/bnxt: fix buffer overflow in TF set message helpers

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Wed Oct 28 04:53:53 CET 2026


LTO build with -Werror reports stack overflows in tf_msg.c:

  In function 'tf_global_cfg_set':
  rte_memcpy.h:91:9: error: writing 16 bytes into a region of size 8
  tf_msg.c:1574:45: note: at offset 48 into destination object 'req'
  of size 56

  In function 'tf_msg_set_if_tbl_entry':
  rte_memcpy.h:105:9: error: writing 32 bytes into a region of size 0
  tf_msg.c:1813:41: note: at offset 136 into destination object 'req'
  of size 128

tf_msg_set_global_cfg() limits config_sz_in_bytes to 16, but
req.data and req.mask are each 8 bytes. A config larger than 8 bytes
overruns data into mask, and the mask copy runs off the end of req.

tf_msg_set_if_tbl_entry() has no check at all. data_sz_in_bytes is a
uint16_t copied into the 88 byte req.data. The ULP mapper fills it
from a blob of up to 128 bytes.

Check both against sizeof() of the destination, as the matching get
functions already do.

Fixes: 98487d729b4a ("net/bnxt: cleanup and refactor session management")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
---
 drivers/net/bnxt/tf_core/tf_msg.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/bnxt/tf_core/tf_msg.c b/drivers/net/bnxt/tf_core/tf_msg.c
index aab8d05d81..ab03afaabd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bnxt/tf_core/tf_msg.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bnxt/tf_core/tf_msg.c
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
  * means we have to manually sync hwrm with these defines if the
  * tf.yaml changes.
  */
-#define TF_MSG_SET_GLOBAL_CFG_DATA_SIZE  16
 #define TF_MSG_EM_INSERT_KEY_SIZE        64
 #define TF_MSG_EM_INSERT_RECORD_SIZE     96
 #define TF_MSG_TBL_TYPE_SET_DATA_SIZE    88
@@ -1618,7 +1617,7 @@ tf_msg_set_global_cfg(struct tf *tfp,
 	req.offset = tfp_cpu_to_le_32(params->offset);
 
 	/* Check for data size conformity */
-	if (params->config_sz_in_bytes > TF_MSG_SET_GLOBAL_CFG_DATA_SIZE) {
+	if (params->config_sz_in_bytes > sizeof(req.data)) {
 		rc = -EINVAL;
 		TFP_DRV_LOG(ERR,
 			    "%s: Invalid parameters for msg type, rc:%s\n",
@@ -1816,6 +1815,9 @@ tf_msg_set_if_tbl_entry(struct tf *tfp,
 	struct tf_dev_info *dev;
 	struct tf_session *tfs;
 
+	if (params->data_sz_in_bytes > sizeof(req.data))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	/* Retrieve the session information */
 	rc = tf_session_get_session(tfp, &tfs);
 	if (rc) {
-- 
2.53.0



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