Bug 2541348 (CVE-2026-98142) - CVE-2026-98142 kernel: drm/cirrus-qemu: Validate BAR0 size during probe
Summary: CVE-2026-98142 kernel: drm/cirrus-qemu: Validate BAR0 size during probe
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98142
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-09-25 11:31 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-28 15:41 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-25 11:31:55 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/cirrus-qemu: Validate BAR0 size during probe

The `cirrus-qemu` driver relies on `CIRRUS_VRAM_SIZE` (4 MB) to validate
framebuffer sizes. However, during PCI probe, the driver mapped BAR0
without verifying that its size matches `CIRRUS_VRAM_SIZE`.

If a PCI device with a BAR0 smaller than 4 MB is bound to the driver, the
mapped VRAM will be smaller than expected. Because validation checks assume
4 MB VRAM, framebuffers larger than the mapped memory can be created.

When the display plane is updated (e.g. during release),
`cirrus_primary_plane_helper_atomic_update()` copies the framebuffer to
VRAM using `drm_fb_memcpy()`. Writing past the end of the mapped I/O memory
causes a supervisor write page fault:

BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffc9000389c000
...
RIP: 0010:memcpy_toio+0x7c/0xe0 arch/x86/lib/iomem.c:110
...
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 iosys_map_memcpy_to include/linux/iosys-map.h:285 [inline]
 drm_fb_memcpy+0x325/0x5d0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_format_helper.c:442
 cirrus_primary_plane_helper_atomic_update+0x98a/0xb00
 drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/cirrus-qemu.c:358
 drm_atomic_helper_commit_planes+0x626/0xea0
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c:3038
 drm_atomic_helper_commit_tail+0x60/0x510
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c:1989
 commit_tail+0x2b1/0x3c0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c:2074
 drm_atomic_helper_commit+0xa77/0xb10
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c:2312

Fix this by validating in `cirrus_pci_probe()` that the PCI BAR0 resource
is not less than `CIRRUS_VRAM_SIZE`, returning `-ENODEV` if it is less.


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