From: Yongqiang Liu <liuyongqiang13@huawei.com>
Unaligned access is harmful for non-x86 archs such as arm64. When we
use pwrite or pread to access the I/O port resources with unaligned
offset, system will crash as follows:
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fffffbfffe8010c1
Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000061 [#1] SMP
Call trace:
_outw include/asm-generic/io.h:594 [inline]
logic_outw+0x54/0x218 lib/logic_pio.c:305
pci_resource_io drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c:1157 [inline]
pci_write_resource_io drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c:1191 [inline]
pci_write_resource_io+0x208/0x260 drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c:1181
sysfs_kf_bin_write+0x188/0x210 fs/sysfs/file.c:158
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x2e8/0x4b0 fs/kernfs/file.c:338
vfs_write+0x7bc/0xac8 fs/read_write.c:586
ksys_write+0x12c/0x270 fs/read_write.c:639
__arm64_sys_write+0x78/0xb8 fs/read_write.c:648
Powerpc seems affected as well, so prohibit the unaligned access
on non-x86 archs.
Fixes: 8633328be242 ("PCI: Allow read/write access to sysfs I/O port resources")
Signed-off-by: Yongqiang Liu <liuyongqiang13@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Ziming Du <duziming2@huawei.com>
---
drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c b/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
index 7e697b82c5e1..c44a9c4a91ab 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
@@ -1166,12 +1166,20 @@ static ssize_t pci_resource_io(struct file *filp, struct kobject *kobj,
*(u8 *)buf = inb(port);
return 1;
case 2:
+#if !defined(CONFIG_X86)
+ if (!IS_ALIGNED(port, count))
+ return -EFAULT;
+#endif
if (write)
outw(*(u16 *)buf, port);
else
*(u16 *)buf = inw(port);
return 2;
case 4:
+#if !defined(CONFIG_X86)
+ if (!IS_ALIGNED(port, count))
+ return -EFAULT;
+#endif
if (write)
outl(*(u32 *)buf, port);
else
--
2.43.0
On Wed, 24 Dec 2025, Ziming Du wrote:
> From: Yongqiang Liu <liuyongqiang13@huawei.com>
>
> Unaligned access is harmful for non-x86 archs such as arm64. When we
> use pwrite or pread to access the I/O port resources with unaligned
> offset, system will crash as follows:
>
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fffffbfffe8010c1
> Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000061 [#1] SMP
> Call trace:
> _outw include/asm-generic/io.h:594 [inline]
> logic_outw+0x54/0x218 lib/logic_pio.c:305
> pci_resource_io drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c:1157 [inline]
> pci_write_resource_io drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c:1191 [inline]
> pci_write_resource_io+0x208/0x260 drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c:1181
> sysfs_kf_bin_write+0x188/0x210 fs/sysfs/file.c:158
> kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x2e8/0x4b0 fs/kernfs/file.c:338
> vfs_write+0x7bc/0xac8 fs/read_write.c:586
> ksys_write+0x12c/0x270 fs/read_write.c:639
> __arm64_sys_write+0x78/0xb8 fs/read_write.c:648
>
> Powerpc seems affected as well, so prohibit the unaligned access
> on non-x86 archs.
>
> Fixes: 8633328be242 ("PCI: Allow read/write access to sysfs I/O port resources")
> Signed-off-by: Yongqiang Liu <liuyongqiang13@huawei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ziming Du <duziming2@huawei.com>
> ---
> drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c | 8 ++++++++
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c b/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
> index 7e697b82c5e1..c44a9c4a91ab 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
> @@ -1166,12 +1166,20 @@ static ssize_t pci_resource_io(struct file *filp, struct kobject *kobj,
> *(u8 *)buf = inb(port);
> return 1;
> case 2:
> +#if !defined(CONFIG_X86)
> + if (!IS_ALIGNED(port, count))
> + return -EFAULT;
> +#endif
> if (write)
> outw(*(u16 *)buf, port);
> else
> *(u16 *)buf = inw(port);
> return 2;
> case 4:
> +#if !defined(CONFIG_X86)
> + if (!IS_ALIGNED(port, count))
> + return -EFAULT;
> +#endif
> if (write)
> outl(*(u32 *)buf, port);
> else
>
To use IS_ALIGNED(), you need to add:
#include <linux/align.h>
--
i.
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