Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 2 authors, 2026-03-01

Subject: [PATCH] Input: atkbd - validate scancode in firmware keymap entries

From: Ariel Silver <hidden>
Date: 2026-02-20 08:44:43
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Subsystem: input (keyboard, mouse, joystick, touchscreen) drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Dmitry Torokhov, Linus Torvalds

The SCANCODE() macro extracts a 16-bit value (0..65535) from firmware
device property data, but atkbd_get_keymap_from_fwnode() uses it
directly to index atkbd->keycode[], which only has ATKBD_KEYMAP_SIZE
(512) elements. A firmware-supplied scancode >= 512 causes a heap
out-of-bounds write that can corrupt adjacent struct atkbd fields and
neighboring slab objects.

Add a bounds check that rejects the entire firmware keymap if any entry
contains an out-of-range scancode, consistent with the validation
performed by matrix_keypad_parse_keymap() in drivers/input/matrix-keymap.c
for the same "linux,keymap" property format. When rejected, the driver
falls back to the default keycode table.

Fixes: 9d17ad2369dc ("Input: atkbd - receive and use physcode->keycode
mapping from FW")
Reported-by: Ariel Silver <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Ariel Silver <redacted>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c b/drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c
index XXXXXXX..XXXXXXX 100644
--- a/drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c
+++ b/drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c
@@ -1111,6 +1111,13 @@ static int atkbd_get_keymap_from_fwnode(struct
atkbd *atkbd)
    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
        scancode = SCANCODE(ptr[i]);
        keycode = KEYCODE(ptr[i]);
+       if (scancode >= ATKBD_KEYMAP_SIZE) {
+           dev_warn(dev,
+                "invalid scancode 0x%x in FW keymap entry %d\n",
+                scancode, i);
+           kfree(ptr);
+           return -EINVAL;
+       }
        atkbd->keycode[scancode] = keycode;
    }
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