* [PATCH v2 0/2] can: kvaser_usb: validate values received from the device
@ 2026-11-11 17:23 Joas Antonio dos Santos via B4 Relay
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From: Joas Antonio dos Santos via B4 Relay @ 2026-11-11 17:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mkl, mailhol, joasantonio108; +Cc: linux-can, linux-kernel, stable
Two fixes for values that kvaser_usb takes from the USB device without
checking them.
Patch 1 rejects hydra commands whose length is shorter than a standard
command. A length of zero otherwise stalls the command loops, and a
short extended command makes the handlers read past the command.
Patch 2 rejects devices that report zero max outstanding tx, which
otherwise leads to a division by zero.
These issues were found with the help of an LLM-based code review tool
(Claude). I checked the code paths by hand against v7.4-rc3 and
reviewed the fixes myself. They are build-tested only (W=1, arm64); I
do not have the hardware to test them at runtime.
---
Changes in v2:
- Patch 1: require at least sizeof(struct kvaser_cmd) instead of the
4-byte header, so that the extended command handlers do not read past
a short command (sashiko review of v1). Subject changed, it was
"can: kvaser_usb: hydra: reject commands shorter than the header".
- Patch 2: unchanged.
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20261110-kvaser-usb-validate-v1-0-f266b85aa908@gmail.com
---
Joas Antonio dos Santos (2):
can: kvaser_usb: hydra: reject commands shorter than a standard command
can: kvaser_usb: reject devices reporting zero max outstanding tx
drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_core.c | 6 ++++++
drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_hydra.c | 8 +++++++-
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
---
base-commit: b3dfbde62cf1981c4638939c159dfd087b7a72e9
change-id: 20261110-kvaser-usb-validate-33c2e34b63bf
Best regards,
--
Joas Antonio dos Santos <joasantonio108@gmail.com>
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* [PATCH v2 1/2] can: kvaser_usb: hydra: reject commands shorter than a standard command
2026-11-11 17:23 [PATCH v2 0/2] can: kvaser_usb: validate values received from the device Joas Antonio dos Santos via B4 Relay
@ 2026-11-11 17:23 ` Joas Antonio dos Santos via B4 Relay
2026-11-11 18:54 ` sashiko-bot
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From: Joas Antonio dos Santos via B4 Relay @ 2026-11-11 17:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mkl, mailhol, joasantonio108; +Cc: linux-can, linux-kernel, stable
From: Joas Antonio dos Santos <joasantonio108@gmail.com>
kvaser_usb_hydra_cmd_size() returns the length field supplied by the
device for extended commands. Both command parsers advance through the
received buffer by that length:
kvaser_usb_hydra_wait_cmd() pos += cmd_len;
kvaser_usb_hydra_read_bulk_callback() pos += cmd_len;
Neither checks that the length is non-zero. A device that sends an
extended command (cmd_no == CMD_EXTENDED) with a length of zero keeps
pos unchanged, so the loop never terminates. In
kvaser_usb_hydra_read_bulk_callback() this happens in the URB completion
handler, which also calls kvaser_usb_hydra_handle_cmd() on the same
command in every iteration, and locks up the CPU. In
kvaser_usb_hydra_wait_cmd() the loop spins in process context without
ever reaching the timeout check.
A non-zero length that is too small is not valid either. The parsers
only check that cmd_len bytes are available, but the handlers of the
extended commands read the fixed part of the command without looking at
the length again: cmd_no_ext, the flags and timestamp of
struct kvaser_cmd_ext_tx_ack and the fields of
struct kvaser_cmd_ext_rx_can in front of the payload. That fixed part
ends at byte 32 in both cases, so a shorter extended command makes the
handlers read bytes that are not part of the command.
Standard commands are sizeof(struct kvaser_cmd), 32 bytes, and the
extended commands that the driver handles or sends are never shorter
than that. Treat a shorter length as a format error in both parsers.
A similar infinite loop in the leaf command parsers was fixed in
commit 0c73772cd2b8 ("can: kvaser_usb: leaf: Fix potential infinite loop
in command parsers").
Found by LLM-assisted source review.
Fixes: aec5fb2268b7 ("can: kvaser_usb: Add support for Kvaser USB hydra family")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joas Antonio dos Santos <joasantonio108@gmail.com>
---
drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_hydra.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_hydra.c b/drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_hydra.c
index 687911d764de..9adb4eb36e39 100644
--- a/drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_hydra.c
+++ b/drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_hydra.c
@@ -676,7 +676,8 @@ static int kvaser_usb_hydra_wait_cmd(const struct kvaser_usb *dev, u8 cmd_no,
tmp_cmd = buf + pos;
cmd_len = kvaser_usb_hydra_cmd_size(tmp_cmd);
- if (pos + cmd_len > actual_len) {
+ if (cmd_len < sizeof(struct kvaser_cmd) ||
+ pos + cmd_len > actual_len) {
dev_err_ratelimited(&dev->intf->dev,
"Format error\n");
break;
@@ -2156,6 +2157,11 @@ static void kvaser_usb_hydra_read_bulk_callback(struct kvaser_usb *dev,
cmd_len = kvaser_usb_hydra_cmd_size(cmd);
+ if (cmd_len < sizeof(struct kvaser_cmd)) {
+ dev_err(&dev->intf->dev, "Format error\n");
+ return;
+ }
+
if (pos + cmd_len > len) {
/* We got first part of a command */
int leftover_bytes;
--
2.43.0
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* [PATCH v2 2/2] can: kvaser_usb: reject devices reporting zero max outstanding tx
2026-11-11 17:23 [PATCH v2 0/2] can: kvaser_usb: validate values received from the device Joas Antonio dos Santos via B4 Relay
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@ 2026-11-11 17:23 ` Joas Antonio dos Santos via B4 Relay
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From: Joas Antonio dos Santos via B4 Relay @ 2026-11-11 17:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mkl, mailhol, joasantonio108; +Cc: linux-can, linux-kernel, stable
From: Joas Antonio dos Santos <joasantonio108@gmail.com>
The number of tx contexts is taken from the max_outstanding_tx field of
the software info reply sent by the device. The leaf driver uses the
value as is and the hydra driver only limits it to
KVASER_USB_MAX_TX_URBS, so a device can report zero.
dev->max_tx_urbs is then used as a divisor when a tx acknowledge is
received:
kvaser_usb_leaf_tx_acknowledge()
context = &priv->tx_contexts[tid % dev->max_tx_urbs];
kvaser_usb_hydra_tx_acknowledge()
context = &priv->tx_contexts[transid % dev->max_tx_urbs];
With max_tx_urbs == 0 a tx acknowledge sent by the device while the
interface is up is a division by zero in the URB completion handler on
architectures that trap on it. On architectures that do not
trap, the index is not reduced at all and tx_contexts[], which was
allocated with zero elements, is accessed out of bounds.
A device that cannot accept any outstanding tx frame is not usable, so
fail the probe when it reports zero.
Found by LLM-assisted source review.
Fixes: 082d70b6142f ("can: kvaser_usb: Comply with firmware max tx URBs value")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joas Antonio dos Santos <joasantonio108@gmail.com>
---
drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_core.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_core.c b/drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_core.c
index d0a2a2a33c1c..a915e529290b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_core.c
@@ -977,6 +977,12 @@ static int kvaser_usb_probe(struct usb_interface *intf,
goto free_devlink;
}
+ if (!dev->max_tx_urbs) {
+ dev_err(&intf->dev, "Invalid max outstanding tx (0)\n");
+ err = -ENODEV;
+ goto free_devlink;
+ }
+
if (ops->dev_get_software_details) {
err = ops->dev_get_software_details(dev);
if (err) {
--
2.43.0
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* Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] can: kvaser_usb: hydra: reject commands shorter than a standard command
2026-11-11 17:23 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] can: kvaser_usb: hydra: reject commands shorter than a standard command Joas Antonio dos Santos via B4 Relay
@ 2026-11-11 18:54 ` sashiko-bot
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: sashiko-bot @ 2026-11-11 18:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Joas Antonio dos Santos
Cc: linux-can, Marc Kleine-Budde, Oliver Hartkopp, Vincent Mailhol,
Oleksij Rempel
Thank you for your contribution! Sashiko AI review found 2 potential
issues to consider:
- [Medium] can: kvaser_usb: hydra: out-of-bounds read in
kvaser_usb_hydra_cmd_size()
- [Medium] can: kvaser_usb: hydra: out-of-bounds read in
kvaser_usb_hydra_rx_msg_ext()
--
commit a4f2c83cb489ac1c24979859f6f3261cc4e94f0f
Author: Joas Antonio dos Santos <joasantonio108@gmail.com>
can: kvaser_usb: hydra: reject commands shorter than a standard command
This commit rejects commands whose length is smaller than sizeof(struct
kvaser_cmd) in kvaser_usb_hydra_wait_cmd() and
kvaser_usb_hydra_read_bulk_callback().
> diff --git a/drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_hydra.c b/drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_hydra.c
> index 687911d764ded..9adb4eb36e394 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_hydra.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_hydra.c
> @@ -676,7 +676,8 @@ static int kvaser_usb_hydra_wait_cmd(const struct kvaser_usb *dev, u8 cmd_no,
>
> tmp_cmd = buf + pos;
> cmd_len = kvaser_usb_hydra_cmd_size(tmp_cmd);
> - if (pos + cmd_len > actual_len) {
> + if (cmd_len < sizeof(struct kvaser_cmd) ||
> + pos + cmd_len > actual_len) {
> dev_err_ratelimited(&dev->intf->dev,
> "Format error\n");
> break;
[Severity: Medium]
Can kvaser_usb_hydra_cmd_size() read past the received bytes in buf when
fewer than offsetofend(struct kvaser_cmd_ext, len) (6) bytes remain?
When tmp_cmd->header.cmd_no is CMD_EXTENDED, kvaser_usb_hydra_cmd_size()
reads ((struct kvaser_cmd_ext *)cmd)->len at byte offsets 4..5 before
checking how many bytes are left in the transfer. If a full
KVASER_USB_RX_BUFFER_SIZE transfer ends with 1..5 trailing bytes and the
first byte is CMD_EXTENDED, this reads up to 4 bytes past the end of buf.
In kvaser_usb_hydra_read_bulk_callback(), a valid extended command split
across two URB transfers with fewer than 6 bytes in the first transfer
also reads unreceived bytes from buf[pos + 4..5] to compute cmd_len,
either tripping the new cmd_len < sizeof(struct kvaser_cmd) check or
saving fewer than 6 bytes into card_data->usb_rx_leftover, where the next
callback calls kvaser_usb_hydra_cmd_size() before the rest of the header
is copied in and without checking cmd_len < sizeof(struct kvaser_cmd).
> @@ -2156,6 +2157,11 @@ static void kvaser_usb_hydra_read_bulk_callback(struct kvaser_usb *dev,
>
> cmd_len = kvaser_usb_hydra_cmd_size(cmd);
>
> + if (cmd_len < sizeof(struct kvaser_cmd)) {
> + dev_err(&dev->intf->dev, "Format error\n");
> + return;
> + }
> +
> if (pos + cmd_len > len) {
> /* We got first part of a command */
> int leftover_bytes;
[Severity: Medium]
Does checking cmd_len < sizeof(struct kvaser_cmd) prevent
kvaser_usb_hydra_rx_msg_ext() from reading past the end of cmd and buf?
In struct kvaser_cmd_ext, the fixed fields of rx_can end at byte 32, and
the union holding err_frame_data and kcan_payload[64] starts at byte 32:
drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_hydra.c:kvaser_usb_hydra_rx_msg_ext() {
...
if (flags & KVASER_USB_HYDRA_CF_FLAG_ERROR_FRAME) {
kvaser_usb_hydra_error_frame(priv, &cmd->rx_can.err_frame_data,
hwtstamp);
return;
}
...
if (flags & KVASER_USB_HYDRA_CF_FLAG_REMOTE_FRAME) {
cf->can_id |= CAN_RTR_FLAG;
} else {
memcpy(cf->data, cmd->rx_can.kcan_payload, cf->len);
stats->rx_bytes += cf->len;
}
}
A CMD_RX_MESSAGE_FD command with cmd_len == 32 passes this check, after
which kvaser_usb_hydra_rx_msg_ext() reads err_frame_data or copies up to
64 bytes from cmd->rx_can.kcan_payload (depending on the DLC in
kcan_header) past the end of the command and potentially past the end of
buf into the skb.
--
Sashiko AI review · https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20261111-kvaser-usb-validate-v2-0-193dc10ca19b@gmail.com?part=1
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