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FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: arm64: Check the untrusted offset in FF-A memory share" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree

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The patch below does not apply to the 5.10-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.10.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 103e17aac09cdd358133f9e00998b75d6c1f1518
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2025112434-impending-cupid-a11e@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.10.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 103e17aac09cdd358133f9e00998b75d6c1f1518 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastian Ene <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 07:57:10 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: arm64: Check the untrusted offset in FF-A memory share

Verify the offset to prevent OOB access in the hypervisor FF-A buffer in case an untrusted large enough value [U32_MAX - sizeof(struct ffa_composite_mem_region) + 1, U32_MAX] is set from the host kernel.

arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c +7 -2
index 4e16f9b96f63..58b7d0c477d7 100644
@@ -479,7 +479,7 @@ static void __do_ffa_mem_xfer(const u64 func_id,
 	struct ffa_mem_region_attributes *ep_mem_access;
 	struct ffa_composite_mem_region *reg;
 	struct ffa_mem_region *buf;
-	u32 offset, nr_ranges;
+	u32 offset, nr_ranges, checked_offset;
 	int ret = 0;
 
 	if (addr_mbz || npages_mbz || fraglen > len ||
@@ -516,7 +516,12 @@ static void __do_ffa_mem_xfer(const u64 func_id,
 		goto out_unlock;
 	}
 
-	if (fraglen < offset + sizeof(struct ffa_composite_mem_region)) {
+	if (check_add_overflow(offset, sizeof(struct ffa_composite_mem_region), &checked_offset)) {
+		ret = FFA_RET_INVALID_PARAMETERS;
+		goto out_unlock;
+	}
+
+	if (fraglen < checked_offset) {
 		ret = FFA_RET_INVALID_PARAMETERS;
 		goto out_unlock;
 	}