Hi

On Thu, Jul 16, 2026 at 2:35 PM Akihiko Odaki
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 2026/07/16 16:55, [email protected] wrote:
> > From: Marc-André Lureau <[email protected]>
> >
> > Both virgl_cmd_submit_3d() and rutabaga_cmd_submit_3d() pass the
> > guest-controlled cs.size directly to malloc() without bounds checking. A
> > malicious guest can set cs.size to an arbitrarily large value, causing
> > an OOM abort that crashes the QEMU process.
>
> I rechecked and found vhost-user-gpu is also affected. The changes of
> virgl and rutabaga look good to me.

Yes, I did it for vhost-user-gpu too (now outdated):
https://patchew.org/QEMU/[email protected]/

I should probably merge them together and resend then.

>
> Regards,
> Akihiko Odaki
>
> >
> > Checking cs.size against the descriptor payload length (iov_size) is not
> > sufficient: indirect descriptor tables can repeat entries aliasing the
> > same guest-physical range, inflating iov_size() to nearly 4 GiB while
> > referring to only a small amount of unique memory.
> >
> > Instead, cap cs.size at 4 MiB. With 4 KiB pages and QEMU's
> > VIRTQUEUE_MAX_SIZE (1024) mapped-iov limit, the Linux virtio driver
> > cannot carry more than ~4 MiB of inline command data, so legitimate
> > submissions are unaffected.
> >
> > Fixes: 9d9e152136bd ("virtio-gpu: add 3d mode and virgl rendering support.")
> > Fixes: 1dcc6adbc168 ("gfxstream + rutabaga: add initial support for 
> > gfxstream")
> > Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/work_items/3776
> > Reported-by: [email protected]
> > Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >   include/hw/virtio/virtio-gpu.h   | 8 ++++++++
> >   hw/display/virtio-gpu-rutabaga.c | 8 ++++++++
> >   hw/display/virtio-gpu-virgl.c    | 8 ++++++++
> >   3 files changed, 24 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/hw/virtio/virtio-gpu.h b/include/hw/virtio/virtio-gpu.h
> > index f69fc194627..c10bfbd596f 100644
> > --- a/include/hw/virtio/virtio-gpu.h
> > +++ b/include/hw/virtio/virtio-gpu.h
> > @@ -299,6 +299,14 @@ struct VirtIOGPURutabaga {
> >       struct rutabaga *rutabaga;
> >   };
> >
> > +/*
> > + * With 4 KiB pages and QEMU's VIRTQUEUE_MAX_SIZE (1024) mapped-iov
> > + * limit, the largest inline command is ~4 MiB.  Cap submit_3d
> > + * allocations to this value to prevent a malicious guest from
> > + * triggering an OOM abort via an inflated cs.size field.
> > + */
> > +#define VIRTIO_GPU_MAX_CMD_SUBMIT_SIZE (4 * 1024 * 1024)
> > +
> >   #define VIRTIO_GPU_FILL_CMD(out) do {                                   \
> >           size_t virtiogpufillcmd_s_ =                                    \
> >               iov_to_buf(cmd->elem.out_sg, cmd->elem.out_num, 0,          \
> > diff --git a/hw/display/virtio-gpu-rutabaga.c 
> > b/hw/display/virtio-gpu-rutabaga.c
> > index 6ff12639012..4d7d7b24592 100644
> > --- a/hw/display/virtio-gpu-rutabaga.c
> > +++ b/hw/display/virtio-gpu-rutabaga.c
> > @@ -351,6 +351,14 @@ rutabaga_cmd_submit_3d(VirtIOGPU *g,
> >       VIRTIO_GPU_FILL_CMD(cs);
> >       trace_virtio_gpu_cmd_ctx_submit(cs.hdr.ctx_id, cs.size);
> >
> > +    if (cs.size > VIRTIO_GPU_MAX_CMD_SUBMIT_SIZE) {
> > +        qemu_log_mask(LOG_GUEST_ERROR,
> > +                      "%s: command buffer too large (%u)\n",
> > +                      __func__, cs.size);
> > +        cmd->error = VIRTIO_GPU_RESP_ERR_INVALID_PARAMETER;
> > +        return;
> > +    }
> > +
> >       buf = g_new0(uint8_t, cs.size);
> >       s = iov_to_buf(cmd->elem.out_sg, cmd->elem.out_num,
> >                      sizeof(cs), buf, cs.size);
> > diff --git a/hw/display/virtio-gpu-virgl.c b/hw/display/virtio-gpu-virgl.c
> > index 60c78af06a4..d9e5b011049 100644
> > --- a/hw/display/virtio-gpu-virgl.c
> > +++ b/hw/display/virtio-gpu-virgl.c
> > @@ -607,6 +607,14 @@ static void virgl_cmd_submit_3d(VirtIOGPU *g,
> >       VIRTIO_GPU_FILL_CMD(cs);
> >       trace_virtio_gpu_cmd_ctx_submit(cs.hdr.ctx_id, cs.size);
> >
> > +    if (cs.size > VIRTIO_GPU_MAX_CMD_SUBMIT_SIZE) {
> > +        qemu_log_mask(LOG_GUEST_ERROR,
> > +                      "%s: command buffer too large (%u)\n",
> > +                      __func__, cs.size);
> > +        cmd->error = VIRTIO_GPU_RESP_ERR_INVALID_PARAMETER;
> > +        return;
> > +    }
> > +
> >       buf = g_malloc(cs.size);
> >       s = iov_to_buf(cmd->elem.out_sg, cmd->elem.out_num,
> >                      sizeof(cs), buf, cs.size);
>
>

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