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Jakub KicinskiandGreg Kroah-Hartman 6ed7ebe22e ethtool: eeprom: add more safeties to EEPROM Netlink fallback
[ Upstream commit 67cfdd9210 ]

The Netlink fallback path for reading module EEPROM
(fallback_set_params()) validates that offset < eeprom_len,
but does not check that offset + length stays within eeprom_len.
The ioctl equivalent (ethtool_get_any_eeprom() in ioctl.c) has
always enforced both bounds:

  if (eeprom.offset + eeprom.len > total_len)
      return -EINVAL;

This could lead to surprises in both drivers and device FW.
Add the missing offset + length validation to fallback_set_params(),
mirroring the ioctl.

Similarly - ethtool core in general, and ethtool_get_any_eeprom()
in particular tries to zero-init all buffers passed to the drivers
to avoid any extra work of zeroing things out. eeprom_fallback()
uses a plain kmalloc(), change it to zalloc.

Fixes: 96d971e307 ("ethtool: Add fallback to get_module_eeprom from netlink command")
Reviewed-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260526153533.2779187-11-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2026-06-19 13:36:54 +02:00
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