CVE-2024-39461

clk: bcm: rpi: Assign ->num before accessing ->hws

published June 25, 2024

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
10.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

clk: bcm: rpi: Assign ->num before accessing ->hws

Commit f316cdff8d67 ("clk: Annotate struct clk_hw_onecell_data with

__counted_by") annotated the hws member of 'struct clk_hw_onecell_data'

with __counted_by, which informs the bounds sanitizer about the number

of elements in hws, so that it can warn when hws is accessed out of

bounds. As noted in that change, the __counted_by member must be

initialized with the number of elements before the first array access

happens, otherwise there will be a warning from each access prior to the

initialization because the number of elements is zero. This occurs in

raspberrypi_discover_clocks() due to ->num being assigned after ->hws

has been accessed:

UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in drivers/clk/bcm/clk-raspberrypi.c:374:4

index 3 is out of range for type 'struct clk_hw *[] __counted_by(num)' (aka 'struct clk_hw *[]')

Move the ->num initialization to before the first access of ->hws, which

clears up the warning.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00211 · 10.9th percentile
Published
2024-06-25T14:25Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 25 JUN 14:25Z
    clk: bcm: rpi: Assign ->num before accessing ->hws
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