From: Vlatko Kosturjak <kost@linux.hr>
To: Valentina Manea <valentina.manea.m@gmail.com>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Hongren Zheng <i@zenithal.me>,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] usbip: vhci: do not give back URBs with an unchecked actual_length
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2026 07:06:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aurLXADfuLjs-dm-@griffin.linux.hr> (raw)
vhci_recv_ret_submit() copies actual_length from the RET_SUBMIT header
into the URB before usbip_recv_xbuff() checks it. When the server reports
more data than the URB's transfer buffer holds, usbip_recv_xbuff() rejects
the reply and shuts the connection down, but the URB is still given back
with the oversized actual_length (and status -EPROTO).
Completion handlers trust actual_length. usbfs copies that many bytes from
the transfer buffer to user space in copy_urb_data_to_user(), whatever the
URB status, so the kernel reads past the kmalloc()ed buffer. With
CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY this is a BUG in the context of the process
reaping the URB:
usb 1-1: recv xbuf, 0
usercopy: Kernel memory exposure attempt detected from SLUB object 'kmalloc-rnd-05-16' (offset 0, size 22)!
kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:102!
RIP: 0010:usercopy_abort+0x6c/0x80
Call Trace:
copy_urb_data_to_user+0x122/0x160
processcompl+0xe3/0x160
usbdev_do_ioctl+0x14d/0x1900
Without it, the adjacent heap contents are copied to user space.
This was hit with a buggy user-space USB/IP device implementation (it
answered an IN URB with more data than requested) while pcscd read from
the device; any server, buggy or malicious, can trigger it.
Do not trust actual_length when the transfer buffer could not be
received: give the URB back with actual_length 0. A short read leaves the
buffer partly unfilled too, so this covers both failure cases.
Fixes: b348d7dddb6c ("USB: usbip: fix potential out-of-bounds write")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vlatko Kosturjak <kost@linux.hr>
---
Tested on host 7.0 (Ubuntu 7.0.0-34-generic) in QEMU with a small reproducer: a
user-space program that attaches a fake device to vhci_hcd through a Unix
socketpair (no network or usbip tools needed), answers a 16-byte bulk IN
URB with actual_length 22, and reaps the URB through usbfs:
unpatched, CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY=y: the BUG above
unpatched, hardened_usercopy=off: reaped actual_length 22 for a 16-byte
buffer; with 200 extra bytes, 200 bytes
of adjacent heap reach user space
patched: reaped status -EPROTO, actual_length 0
The vhci_rx.c hunk is the same in v7.0 and in mainline. Happy to send the
reproducer (about 300 lines of C plus a QEMU script) if useful.
The 2026 hardening of RET_SUBMIT (number_of_packets, iso frame lengths)
does not cover this path; it is the non-isochronous actual_length.
drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_rx.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_rx.c b/drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_rx.c
index a678e7c89..720dafa72 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_rx.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_rx.c
@@ -78,6 +78,14 @@ static void vhci_recv_ret_submit(struct vhci_device *vdev,
/* recv transfer buffer */
if (usbip_recv_xbuff(ud, urb) < 0) {
+ /*
+ * The transfer buffer was not filled: either a short read or
+ * an actual_length larger than transfer_buffer_length, which
+ * usbip_recv_xbuff() rejects. Do not give the URB back with
+ * that actual_length: completion handlers trust it, e.g.
+ * usbfs copies actual_length bytes out of transfer_buffer.
+ */
+ urb->actual_length = 0;
urb->status = -EPROTO;
goto error;
}
base-commit: 05441d697f7f9a927264f4058cbbc6a03dfcac9d
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2026-11-04 6:06 Vlatko Kosturjak [this message]
2026-11-04 6:16 ` [PATCH] usbip: vhci: do not give back URBs with an unchecked actual_length sashiko-bot
2026-11-04 7:22 ` Vlatko Kosturjak
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