Subject: [PATCH v6 5/6] KVM: arm64: Validate the offset to the mem access descriptor

From: Mostafa Saleh <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 15:02:35 +0000

From: Sebastian Ene <[email-masked]>

Prevent the pKVM hypervisor from making assumptions that the
endpoint memory access descriptor (EMAD) comes right after the
FF-A memory region header.
Prior to FF-A version 1.1 the header of the memory region
didn't contain an offset to the endpoint memory access descriptor.
The layout of a memory transaction looks like this from 1.1 onward:
Type | Field name | Offset
[ Header | ffa_mem_region  | 0
  EMAD 1 | ffa_mem_region_attributes) | ffa_mem_region.ep_mem_offset
]
Verify that the offset to the first endpoint memory access descriptor
is within the mailbox buffer bounds.

Also, fix one hardcoded sizeof(struct ffa_mem_region_attributes) that
should be replaced ffa_emad_size_get() for compatibility with FFA v1.0.

[@Mostafa, Add missing call to ffa_rx_release() and use fraglen
 as the max buffer size as it is the only intialised part]

Fixes: 42fb33dde42b ("KVM: arm64: Use FF-A 1.1 with pKVM")
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ene <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Mostafa Saleh <[email-masked]>
---
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c
index b6cf9ad82e12..a12e01883314 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c
@@ -476,10 +476,10 @@ static void __do_ffa_mem_xfer(const u64 func_id,
 	DECLARE_REG(u32, fraglen, ctxt, 2);
 	DECLARE_REG(u64, addr_mbz, ctxt, 3);
 	DECLARE_REG(u32, npages_mbz, ctxt, 4);
+	u32 offset, nr_ranges, checked_offset, em_mem_access_off;
 	struct ffa_mem_region_attributes *ep_mem_access;
 	struct ffa_composite_mem_region *reg;
 	struct ffa_mem_region *buf;
-	u32 offset, nr_ranges, checked_offset;
 	int ret = 0;
 
 	if (addr_mbz || npages_mbz || fraglen > len ||
@@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ static void __do_ffa_mem_xfer(const u64 func_id,
 	}
 
 	if (fraglen < sizeof(struct ffa_mem_region) +
-		      sizeof(struct ffa_mem_region_attributes)) {
+		      ffa_emad_size_get(hyp_ffa_version)) {
 		ret = FFA_RET_INVALID_PARAMETERS;
 		goto out;
 	}
@@ -508,8 +508,13 @@ static void __do_ffa_mem_xfer(const u64 func_id,
 	buf = hyp_buffers.tx;
 	memcpy(buf, host_buffers.tx, fraglen);
 
-	ep_mem_access = (void *)buf +
-			ffa_mem_desc_offset(buf, 0, hyp_ffa_version);
+	em_mem_access_off = ffa_mem_desc_offset(buf, 0, hyp_ffa_version);
+	if ((u64)em_mem_access_off + ffa_emad_size_get(hyp_ffa_version) > fraglen) {
+		ret = FFA_RET_INVALID_PARAMETERS;
+		goto out_unlock;
+	}
+
+	ep_mem_access = (void *)buf + em_mem_access_off;
 	offset = ep_mem_access->composite_off;
 	if (!offset || buf->ep_count != 1 || buf->sender_id != HOST_FFA_ID) {
 		ret = FFA_RET_INVALID_PARAMETERS;
@@ -574,9 +579,9 @@ static void do_ffa_mem_reclaim(struct arm_smccc_1_2_regs *res,
 	DECLARE_REG(u32, handle_lo, ctxt, 1);
 	DECLARE_REG(u32, handle_hi, ctxt, 2);
 	DECLARE_REG(u32, flags, ctxt, 3);
+	u32 offset, len, fraglen, fragoff, em_mem_access_off;
 	struct ffa_mem_region_attributes *ep_mem_access;
 	struct ffa_composite_mem_region *reg;
-	u32 offset, len, fraglen, fragoff;
 	struct ffa_mem_region *buf;
 	int ret = 0;
 	u64 handle;
@@ -599,8 +604,14 @@ static void do_ffa_mem_reclaim(struct arm_smccc_1_2_regs *res,
 	len = res->a1;
 	fraglen = res->a2;
 
-	ep_mem_access = (void *)buf +
-			ffa_mem_desc_offset(buf, 0, hyp_ffa_version);
+	em_mem_access_off = ffa_mem_desc_offset(buf, 0, hyp_ffa_version);
+	if ((u64)em_mem_access_off + ffa_emad_size_get(hyp_ffa_version) > fraglen) {
+		ret = FFA_RET_INVALID_PARAMETERS;
+		ffa_rx_release(res);
+		goto out_unlock;
+	}
+
+	ep_mem_access = (void *)buf + em_mem_access_off;
 	offset = ep_mem_access->composite_off;
 	/*
 	 * We can trust the SPMD to get this right, but let's at least
-- 
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