fix(linux): validate mapped DMA-BUF frames - #386
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PipeWire capture shim validates frame bounds against mapped DMA-BUF lengths or shared-memory sizes before copying frames. It adds bounded drop diagnostics and regression tests. ChangesFrame validation and safe reads
Audio ring buffering
Cursor metadata warning
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to The change is merge-ready after normal review; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant PipeWire
participant osc_read_frame
participant DMA_BUF_mapping
participant osc_pw_frame_bounds_valid
PipeWire->>osc_read_frame: provide buffer metadata
osc_read_frame->>DMA_BUF_mapping: resolve pointer and mapped length
DMA_BUF_mapping-->>osc_read_frame: return mapping record
osc_read_frame->>osc_pw_frame_bounds_valid: validate offset, size, geometry, and stride
osc_pw_frame_bounds_valid-->>osc_read_frame: return validation result
osc_read_frame->>osc_read_frame: copy valid frame or report dropped frame
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electron/native/pipewire-capture/src/shim.rs (1)
990-1088: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueAdd assertion messages to the nine bounds cases.
This test packs nine
frame_bounds_validassertions with no messages. A failure reports only a line number, so the reader must re-derive which rule broke. The adjacent tests in this file already carry messages that name the rule.Add a short message per case, for example "chunk_offset past the allocation must be rejected" and "shared memory must use maxsize, not mapped_len".
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In `@electron/native/pipewire-capture/csrc/pw_shim.c`:
- Around line 791-806: Move the SPA_CHUNK_FLAG_CORRUPTED check out of the
DMA-BUF sentinel branch and perform it before selecting either size calculation
path, so every data type and maxsize value rejects corrupted chunks. Preserve
the existing sentinel and bounded-size calculations, and add coverage for
chunk_flags set with a non-zero maxsize.
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In `@electron/native/pipewire-capture/src/shim.rs`:
- Around line 990-1088: The test
frame_bounds_reject_invalid_offsets_and_geometry_without_affecting_memfd has
nine assertions without diagnostic messages. Add a short, rule-specific
assertion message to each frame_bounds_valid call, covering valid DMA-BUF
bounds, invalid offsets, capped oversized chunks, shared-memory maxsize
behavior, overflow/geometry rejection, invalid stride, and invalid frame offset.
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Good find, and the two-compositor reproduction makes it easy to follow. Probing the fd is the right shape for this — maxsize genuinely isn't trustworthy on that path.
Four things inline. The first two change what gets accepted; the last two are about being able to see what happened when it isn't.
Two notes that don't sit on a line:
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SPA_CHUNK_FLAG_CORRUPTEDcheck andstride < width * 4live in the shared helper, so they gate MemPtr/MemFd too, and the offset clamp there became a hard reject. The reject is equivalent in practice (the old clamp producedsize = 0, which failed the next check anyway), but the other two are new conditions on the shared-memory path. Testing here covers Sway and niri, both DMA-BUF, while mutter negotiates MemFd — worth a run on GNOME before this lands. - Your 58 tests never actually run on this PR. No CI job builds this crate: it's a separate cargo workspace, and
ci.yml's cargo jobs are scoped tocrates/. Nothing compilespw_shim.con a pull request either, so a C compile error here would merge green. That's not yours to fix — I'm adding the job separately.
I worked all four through with tests while reviewing, on claude/code-review-pr-386-qwv3zk in this repo, if it's useful to diff against. Happy to hand that over as a patch rather than have you redo it.
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| { | ||
| off_t probed = lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_END); | ||
| if (probed > 0) { | ||
| if (probed > 0 && (uintmax_t)probed <= SIZE_MAX && (size_t)probed > *len) { |
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The && (size_t)probed > *len term means this only ever grows *len, so an over-declared maxsize still reaches mmap. The kernel refuses a dmabuf mapping longer than the object (dma_buf_mmap_internal returns -EINVAL when vm_pgoff + vma_pages(vma) > dmabuf->size >> PAGE_SHIFT), so the import fails and osc_map_dmabuf sets "this driver does not allow CPU mapping of the capture buffer" — the exact misdiagnosis this PR sets out to remove, with the right length already sitting in probed.
The fd is the authority in both directions: dma_buf_llseek returns exactly dmabuf->size. Dropping that last term covers the small-placeholder case you're fixing and the large one in the same line.
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| * fields, so keying this path on magic values is both brittle and | ||
| * unnecessary. The frame is still accepted only when stride * height | ||
| * fits inside the actual mapped allocation below. */ | ||
| size = available - offset; |
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Dropping chunk->size outright is a wider change than the placeholder problem needs, because it also drops the clamp for producers that fill the field in honestly.
Measured against this branch, 1920x1080 in an 8 MiB mapping: strides from 7680 to 7767 are all accepted, where SPA_MIN(chunk->size, ...) took only 7680. A compositor reporting 7767 no longer gets dropped — it gets encoded, with every row sheared a bit further right. Same shape for a torn frame: a producer whose copy didn't finish reports a short chunk->size, and that's now read as a whole frame with the previous frame's pixels in the bottom half.
You can keep the fix and the clamp by weighing the value rather than the memory type — a chunk size too small to hold even one row isn't a byte count, so fall back to the mapping there, and believe anything at or above a row:
if (data_type == SPA_DATA_DmaBuf && (uint64_t)chunk_size < row_bytes) {
size = available - offset;
} else {
size = SPA_MIN((size_t)chunk_size, available - offset);
}The 9 and 1 you found are three orders of magnitude below a row, so wlr and niri keep working, while a half-written frame stays clamped. Needs frame_bytes/row_bytes computed above this point.
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| size_t mapped_len, size_t available, | ||
| enum osc_frame_bounds_error error) | ||
| { | ||
| if (!osc_debug_enabled() || session->frame_drop_reports >= OSC_FRAME_DROP_REPORTS) { |
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Every reason this reports is decided by stride, geometry and the mapped length — all fixed for a whole negotiation. So a buffer that fails validation once fails for the rest of the session, and the user gets a file with no frames in it. Behind an env var, nothing says why.
Nothing downstream can fill the gap either: a rejected frame never reaches the mailbox, so FrameMailbox::dropped stays at 0 and frames-dropped never fires; the session still stops "successfully" with frames: 0.
Seventy lines up, osc_on_add_buffer deliberately routes the mmap failure through session->callbacks.on_buffer_info — "a mapping failure here means no frames at all, and silence would read as a hang". Identical symptom, opposite treatment. osc_frame_bounds_error_name already computes the string, so sending the first drop up a callback is most of the work.
One caveat if you reuse on_buffer_info for it: that import-failure call passes has_cursor_meta = 0, and main.rs then emits no-cursor-metadata for it — so today a capture that produced zero frames reaches the user as a cursor-metadata warning. A separate callback avoids inheriting that.
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| /* One short row is one row of garbage in the recording; refuse the whole | ||
| * frame instead, and let the caller count it as dropped. */ | ||
| if ((uint64_t)stride * (uint64_t)height > (uint64_t)size) { | ||
| bounds_error = osc_resolve_frame_bounds( |
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The if (data->chunk->size == 0) gate six lines up still treats chunk->size as authoritative for DMA-BUF, which is what the new comment at line 799 argues against — and it returns before this call, so that drop never reaches osc_report_frame_drop even with debug on.
It also splits the contract the new tests are asserting: osc_pw_frame_bounds_valid(DmaBuf, chunk_size = 0, 8 MiB mapping, sane geometry) returns true, while osc_read_frame drops that same buffer two statements earlier. None of the 13 assertions passes chunk_size = 0, so the suite certifies a behaviour the reader doesn't have.
Folding it into osc_resolve_frame_bounds as its own outcome keeps the cursor-only case working (the caller just returns without reporting) and makes the tested helper and the real reader answer the same question.
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electron/native/pipewire-capture/src/shim.rs (1)
310-345: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueSplit the doc comment so the constant gets its own summary line.
Lines 310-345 form one contiguous
///run directly aboveconst MAX_SILENCE_SECONDS. The first paragraph documents the ring's overflow policy, and line 326 starts a second summary sentence inside the same comment. Rustdoc will use line 310 as the summary for the constant, and the intended one-line description at line 326 will be buried in the body.Move the overflow-policy paragraph to the
AudioRingtype or to a module-level comment, and keep line 326 as the first line of the constant's doc comment.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@electron/native/pipewire-capture/src/shim.rs`:
- Around line 310-345: Separate the overflow-policy documentation from the doc
comment directly above MAX_SILENCE_SECONDS by moving that paragraph to the
AudioRing type or a module-level comment. Ensure the constant’s documentation
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Summary
Follow-up to #299 and #319.
I could still reproduce a DMA-BUF read failure on Arch Linux when PipeWire provided placeholder size metadata instead of the DMA-BUF allocation length.
Two different cases were observed:
maxsize = 0andchunk_size = 9.maxsize = 1andchunk_size = 1.In both cases, the DMA-BUF file descriptor exposed a valid larger allocation, but checking the frame against the placeholder values caused it to be rejected before reaching the encoder.
The fix does not match compositor-specific values. It probes the DMA-BUF file descriptor for its allocation length and validates the frame offset and
stride × heightagainst the mapped allocation. The shared-memory path retains its existing size checks.Original Sway reproduction:
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Refs #287
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