Subject: [PATCH v4] soc: aspeed: lpc-snoop: Fix usercopy overflow in snoop_file_read

From: Karthikeyan KS <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2026 12:52:13 +0000

put_fifo_with_discard() acts as both producer and consumer on the kfifo:
it calls kfifo_skip() (advances out) and kfifo_put() (advances in) from
the IRQ handler without synchronizing with snoop_file_read(), which also
consumes via kfifo_to_user(). On SMP systems this concurrent access can
leave (in - out) larger than the ring buffer, so __kfifo_to_user()'s clamp
to (in - out) is ineffective and kfifo_copy_to_user() can attempt a
copy_to_user() past the kmalloc-2k backing store:

  usercopy: Kernel memory exposure attempt detected from SLUB object
  'kmalloc-2k' (offset 0, size 2049)!
  kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c!
  Call trace:
   usercopy_abort
   __check_heap_object
   __check_object_size
   kfifo_copy_to_user
   __kfifo_to_user
   snoop_file_read
   vfs_read

Serialize kfifo access with a per-channel spinlock. copy_to_user()
runs after dropping the lock, since it may sleep on a page fault.

Fixes: 3772e5da4454 ("drivers/misc: Aspeed LPC snoop output using misc chardev")
Cc: [email-masked]
Signed-off-by: Karthikeyan KS <[email-masked]>
---
Andrew,

Thanks for the review.

> This seems inappropriate and I expect is flagged if you compile with
> CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y or CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP=y

v4 drains the kfifo into a kernel buffer via kfifo_out() under
the lock, then performs copy_to_user() after dropping it.
(cf. drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c, which drains under its event lock
and copies outside it.)

> ensure you develop, build and test on recent releases

Tested on both v7.1-rc5 and v7.1-rc6 with PROVE_LOCKING,
DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP and HARDENED_USERCOPY enabled: read path
round-trips correctly, no lockdep splats, no atomic-sleep
warnings, no usercopy aborts.

Changes since v3:
- Replaced kfifo_to_user() with kfifo_out() + copy_to_user()
  to avoid sleeping under spinlock
- Rebased onto v7.1-rc6

 drivers/soc/aspeed/aspeed-lpc-snoop.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/soc/aspeed/aspeed-lpc-snoop.c b/drivers/soc/aspeed/aspeed-lpc-snoop.c
index b03310c0830d..0fe463020e25 100644
--- a/drivers/soc/aspeed/aspeed-lpc-snoop.c
+++ b/drivers/soc/aspeed/aspeed-lpc-snoop.c
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ struct aspeed_lpc_snoop_channel_cfg {
 struct aspeed_lpc_snoop_channel {
 	const struct aspeed_lpc_snoop_channel_cfg *cfg;
 	bool enabled;
+	spinlock_t		lock;
 	struct kfifo		fifo;
 	wait_queue_head_t	wq;
 	struct miscdevice	miscdev;
@@ -115,6 +116,7 @@ static ssize_t snoop_file_read(struct file *file, char __user *buffer,
 {
 	struct aspeed_lpc_snoop_channel *chan = snoop_file_to_chan(file);
 	unsigned int copied;
+	u8 *buf;
 	int ret = 0;
 
 	if (kfifo_is_empty(&chan->fifo)) {
@@ -125,11 +127,22 @@ static ssize_t snoop_file_read(struct file *file, char __user *buffer,
 		if (ret == -ERESTARTSYS)
 			return -EINTR;
 	}
-	ret = kfifo_to_user(&chan->fifo, buffer, count, &copied);
-	if (ret)
-		return ret;
 
-	return copied;
+	buf = kmalloc(SNOOP_FIFO_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!buf)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	spin_lock_irq(&chan->lock);
+	copied = kfifo_out(&chan->fifo, buf,
+			   min_t(size_t, count, SNOOP_FIFO_SIZE));
+	spin_unlock_irq(&chan->lock);
+
+	ret = copied;
+	if (copied && copy_to_user(buffer, buf, copied))
+		ret = -EFAULT;
+
+	kfree(buf);
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static __poll_t snoop_file_poll(struct file *file,
@@ -153,9 +166,11 @@ static void put_fifo_with_discard(struct aspeed_lpc_snoop_channel *chan, u8 val)
 {
 	if (!kfifo_initialized(&chan->fifo))
 		return;
+	spin_lock(&chan->lock);
 	if (kfifo_is_full(&chan->fifo))
 		kfifo_skip(&chan->fifo);
 	kfifo_put(&chan->fifo, val);
+	spin_unlock(&chan->lock);
 	wake_up_interruptible(&chan->wq);
 }
 
@@ -228,6 +243,7 @@ static int aspeed_lpc_enable_snoop(struct device *dev,
 		return -EBUSY;
 
 	init_waitqueue_head(&channel->wq);
+	spin_lock_init(&channel->lock);
 
 	channel->cfg = cfg;
 	channel->miscdev.minor = MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR;
-- 
2.43.0