From: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>
To: Diego Fernando Mancera Gomez <diegomancera.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr>,
Chas Williams <3chas3@gmail.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mfo@igalia.com>,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-atm-general@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
syzbot+e62a973f8322b3bbe3ac@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: atm: ueagle-atm: reject descriptors that confuse probe and disconnect
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:10:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260717091020.GA13163@wp.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260717080704.1264-1-diegomancera.dev@gmail.com>
On Fri, Jul 17, 2026 at 02:07:04AM -0600, Diego Fernando Mancera Gomez wrote:
> uea_probe() distinguishes a pre-firmware device from a post-firmware one
> using the USB id (UEA_IS_PREFIRM()), and stores a different object as the
> interface data in each case: a 'struct completion' for a pre-firmware
> device (to be waited on in .disconnect()), or a 'struct usbatm_data' for a
> post-firmware one.
>
> uea_disconnect() instead tells the two apart by the number of interfaces
> of the active configuration (a pre-firmware device exposes a single
> interface, ADI930 has 2 and eagle has 3), and casts the interface data
> accordingly.
>
> Because the two handlers use different criteria, a crafted device that
> advertises a pre-firmware id together with a multi-interface descriptor
> (or a post-firmware id with a single interface) makes them disagree: the
> small 'struct completion' stored by uea_probe() is then passed to
> usbatm_usb_disconnect(), which casts it to 'struct usbatm_data' and takes
> instance->serialize, reading past the end of the allocation:
>
> BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in __mutex_lock+0x152a/0x1b80
> Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880470e2c60 by task kworker/1:2/982
> ...
> __mutex_lock+0x152a/0x1b80
> usbatm_usb_disconnect+0x70/0x820
> uea_disconnect+0x133/0x2c0
> usb_unbind_interface+0x1dd/0x9e0
> ...
> which belongs to the cache kmalloc-96 of size 96
> The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of
> allocated 96-byte region [ffff8880470e2c00, ffff8880470e2c60)
>
> Reject such inconsistent descriptors in uea_probe() so that both handlers
> always make the same pre/post-firmware decision.
>
> Reported-by: syzbot+e62a973f8322b3bbe3ac@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=e62a973f8322b3bbe3ac
> Fixes: e2674dfbed8a ("usb: atm: ueagle-atm: wait for pre-firmware load in .disconnect()")
> Signed-off-by: Diego Fernando Mancera Gomez <diegomancera.dev@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>
Thanks
Stanislaw
> ---
> drivers/usb/atm/ueagle-atm.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/atm/ueagle-atm.c b/drivers/usb/atm/ueagle-atm.c
> index 4e71ed679a76..4266a0cb7e3b 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/atm/ueagle-atm.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/atm/ueagle-atm.c
> @@ -2549,6 +2549,7 @@ static struct usbatm_driver uea_usbatm_driver = {
> static int uea_probe(struct usb_interface *intf, const struct usb_device_id *id)
> {
> struct usb_device *usb = interface_to_usbdev(intf);
> + bool single_iface = usb->config->desc.bNumInterfaces == 1;
> int ret;
>
> uea_dbg(usb, "ADSL device found with vid (%#X) pid (%#X) Rev (%#X): %s\n",
> @@ -2557,6 +2558,22 @@ static int uea_probe(struct usb_interface *intf, const struct usb_device_id *id)
> le16_to_cpu(usb->descriptor.bcdDevice),
> chip_name[UEA_CHIP_VERSION(id)]);
>
> + /*
> + * uea_probe() decides between the pre-firmware and post-firmware case
> + * from the USB id and stores a different object as interface data in
> + * each case: a struct completion for a pre-firmware device, a struct
> + * usbatm_data for a post-firmware one. uea_disconnect() instead tells
> + * the two apart by the number of interfaces (a pre-firmware device
> + * exposes a single interface, ADI930 has 2 and eagle has 3). A crafted
> + * device advertising a pre-firmware id together with a multi-interface
> + * descriptor (or the other way around) makes the two disagree, so that
> + * usbatm_usb_disconnect() treats the small completion object as a
> + * struct usbatm_data and reads out of bounds. Reject such inconsistent
> + * descriptors so both paths make the same decision.
> + */
> + if (UEA_IS_PREFIRM(id) != single_iface)
> + return -ENODEV;
> +
> usb_reset_device(usb);
>
> if (UEA_IS_PREFIRM(id)) {
> --
> 2.43.0
>
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2026-07-17 8:07 [PATCH] usb: atm: ueagle-atm: reject descriptors that confuse probe and disconnect Diego Fernando Mancera Gomez
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