[PATCH net-next] net: dsa: mxl862xx: don't read out-of-bounds
From: Daniel Golle
Date: Tue Mar 17 2026 - 23:08:08 EST
The write loop in mxl862xx_api_wrap() computes the word count as
(size + 1) / 2, rounding up for odd-sized structs.
On the last iteration of an odd-sized buffer it reads a full __le16
from data[i], accessing one byte past the end of the caller's struct.
KASAN catches this as a stack-out-of-bounds read during probe (e.g.
from mxl862xx_bridge_config_fwd() because of the odd length of
sizeof(struct mxl862xx_bridge_config) == 49).
The read-back loop already handles this case, it writes only a single
byte when (i * 2 + 1) == size. The write loop lacked the same guard.
In practice the over-read is harmless: the extra stack byte is sent to
the firmware which ignores trailing data beyond the command's declared
payload size.
Apply the same odd-size last-byte handling to the write path: when the
final word contains only one valid byte, send *(u8 *)&data[i] instead
of le16_to_cpu(data[i]). This is endian-safe because data is
__le16-encoded and the low byte is always at the lowest address
regardless of host byte order.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/dsa/mxl862xx/mxl862xx-host.c | 10 ++++++++--
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/dsa/mxl862xx/mxl862xx-host.c b/drivers/net/dsa/mxl862xx/mxl862xx-host.c
index 8c55497a0ce89..4eefd2a759a7d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/dsa/mxl862xx/mxl862xx-host.c
+++ b/drivers/net/dsa/mxl862xx/mxl862xx-host.c
@@ -175,8 +175,14 @@ int mxl862xx_api_wrap(struct mxl862xx_priv *priv, u16 cmd, void *_data,
goto out;
}
- ret = mxl862xx_reg_write(priv, MXL862XX_MMD_REG_DATA_FIRST + off,
- le16_to_cpu(data[i]));
+ if ((i * 2 + 1) == size)
+ ret = mxl862xx_reg_write(priv,
+ MXL862XX_MMD_REG_DATA_FIRST + off,
+ *(u8 *)&data[i]);
+ else
+ ret = mxl862xx_reg_write(priv,
+ MXL862XX_MMD_REG_DATA_FIRST + off,
+ le16_to_cpu(data[i]));
if (ret < 0)
goto out;
}
--
2.53.0