CVE-2024-38606

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

crypto: qat - validate slices count returned by FW

The function adfsendadmintlstart() enables the telemetry (TL) feature on a QAT device by sending the ICPQATFWTLSTART message to the firmware. This triggers the FW to start writing TL data to a DMA buffer in memory and returns an array containing the number of accelerators of each type (slices) supported by this HW. The pointer to this array is stored in the adftlhwdata data structure called slicecnt.

The array slicecnt is then used in the function tlprintdevdata() to report in debugfs only statistics about the supported accelerators. An incorrect value of the elements in slice_cnt might lead to an out of bounds memory read. At the moment, there isn't an implementation of FW that returns a wrong value, but for robustness validate the slice count array returned by FW.