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[PATCH] net: airoha: fix foe_check_time allocation size

From: Wayen Yan <hidden>
Date: 2026-06-16 10:10:15
Also in: linux-arm-kernel, linux-mediatek
Subsystem: airoha ethernet driver, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Lorenzo Bianconi, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

foe_check_time is declared as u16 pointer but was allocated with
only ppe_num_entries bytes instead of ppe_num_entries * sizeof(u16).

When airoha_ppe_foe_verify_entry() is called with hash >= ppe_num_entries/2,
it writes beyond the allocated buffer, causing heap buffer overflow and
potential kernel crash.

Signed-off-by: Wayen Yan <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_ppe.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_ppe.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_ppe.c
index 5c9dff6bcc..8fb8ecf909 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_ppe.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_ppe.c
@@ -1578,7 +1578,8 @@ int airoha_ppe_init(struct airoha_eth *eth)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 
-	ppe->foe_check_time = devm_kzalloc(eth->dev, ppe_num_entries,
+	ppe->foe_check_time = devm_kzalloc(eth->dev,
+					   ppe_num_entries * sizeof(*ppe->foe_check_time),
 					   GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!ppe->foe_check_time)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-- 
2.51.0

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