In this function "c->off" is a u32 and "size" is a long. On 64bit systems if "c->off" is greater than "size" then "size - c->off" is a negative and we always return -E2BIG. But on 32bit systems the subtraction is type promoted to a high positive u32 value and basically any "c->len" is accepted. Fixes: 4c8cf31885f6 ("vhost: introduce vDPA-based backend") Reported-by: Xie Yongji <xieyongji@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- v4: split into a separate patch drivers/vhost/vdpa.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vdpa.c b/drivers/vhost/vdpa.c index 29cced1cd277..e3c4f059b21a 100644 --- a/drivers/vhost/vdpa.c +++ b/drivers/vhost/vdpa.c @@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ static int vhost_vdpa_config_validate(struct vhost_vdpa *v, struct vdpa_device *vdpa = v->vdpa; long size = vdpa->config->get_config_size(vdpa); - if (c->len == 0) + if (c->len == 0 || c->off > size) return -EINVAL; if (c->len > size - c->off) -- 2.20.1