REDHAT-BUG-2348647: Medium severity The Linux Kernel Project Linux Kernel vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

PCI: dwc: ep: Prevent changing BAR size/flags in pciepcsetbar()

In commit 4284c88fff0e ("PCI: designware-ep: Allow pciepcsetbar() update inbound map address") setbar() was modified to support dynamically changing the backing physical address of a BAR that was already configured.

This means that setbar() can be called twice, without ever calling clearbar() (as calling clearbar() would clear the BAR's PCI address assigned by the host).

This can only be done if the new BAR size/flags does not differ from the existing BAR configuration. Add these missing checks.

If we allow setbar() to set e.g. a new BAR size that differs from the existing BAR size, the new address translation range will be smaller than the BAR size already determined by the host, which would mean that a read past the new BAR size would pass the iATU untranslated, which could allow the host to read memory not belonging to the new struct pciepfbar.

While at it, add comments which clarifies the support for dynamically changing the physical address of a BAR. (Which was also missing.)