Commit fc96ec826bce ("spi: fsl-cpm: Use 16 bit mode for large transfers with even size") failed to make sure that the size is really even before switching to 16 bit mode. Until recently the problem went unnoticed because kernfs uses a pre-allocated bounce buffer of size PAGE_SIZE for reading EEPROM.
But commit 8ad6249c51d0 ("eeprom: at25: convert to spi-mem API") introduced an additional dynamically allocated bounce buffer whose size is exactly the size of the transfer, leading to a buffer overrun in the fsl-cpm driver when that size is odd.
Add the missing length parity verification and remain in 8 bit mode when the length is not even.
Fixes: fc96ec826bce ("spi: fsl-cpm: Use 16 bit mode for large transfers with even size") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/638496dd-ec60-4e53-bad7-eb657f67d580@csgroup.eu/ Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu Reviewed-by: Sverdlin Alexander alexander.sverdlin@siemens.com --- v2: Updated with comments from Alexander --- drivers/spi/spi-fsl-spi.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-spi.c b/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-spi.c index 2f2082652a1a..481a7b28aacd 100644 --- a/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-spi.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-spi.c @@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ static int fsl_spi_prepare_message(struct spi_controller *ctlr, if (t->bits_per_word == 16 || t->bits_per_word == 32) t->bits_per_word = 8; /* pretend its 8 bits */ if (t->bits_per_word == 8 && t->len >= 256 && - (mpc8xxx_spi->flags & SPI_CPM1)) + !(t->len & 1) && (mpc8xxx_spi->flags & SPI_CPM1)) t->bits_per_word = 16; } }
On Thu, 20 Nov 2025 09:34:49 +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
Commit fc96ec826bce ("spi: fsl-cpm: Use 16 bit mode for large transfers with even size") failed to make sure that the size is really even before switching to 16 bit mode. Until recently the problem went unnoticed because kernfs uses a pre-allocated bounce buffer of size PAGE_SIZE for reading EEPROM.
But commit 8ad6249c51d0 ("eeprom: at25: convert to spi-mem API") introduced an additional dynamically allocated bounce buffer whose size is exactly the size of the transfer, leading to a buffer overrun in the fsl-cpm driver when that size is odd.
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[1/1] spi: fsl-cpm: Check length parity before switching to 16 bit mode commit: 1417927df8049a0194933861e9b098669a95c762
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