From: Vasileios Almpanis <vasilisalmpanis@gmail.com>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
Igor M Liplianin <liplianin@me.by>
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org,
syzbot+f408eac9faa61d5a1927@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] media: dw2102: fix OOB read on firmware size not a multiple of 64
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2026 10:46:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <576fd334-3482-4ada-9b35-2e67a024e306@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260806-dvb-v1-1-a750f8e5b2ea@gmail.com>
On 8/6/26 7:47 PM, Vasileios Almpanis wrote:
> dw2102_load_firmware() copies the firmware into a buffer of exactly
> fw->size bytes, then walks it in 0x40-byte steps while always passing
> 0x40 as the transfer length. When fw->size is not a multiple of 64 the
> last chunk reads past the end of the allocation producing the following
> splat:
>
> dvb-usb: downloading firmware from file 'dvb-usb-dw3101.fw'
> dw2102: start downloading DW210X firmware
> ==================================================================
> BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in dw210x_op_rw+0xb6/0x180 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dw2102.c:102
> Read of size 64 at addr ffff88802bcf2ba0 by task kworker/1:2/803
> Call Trace:
> <TASK>
> kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
> check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline]
> kasan_check_range+0x264/0x2c0 mm/kasan/generic.c:200
> __asan_memcpy+0x29/0x70 mm/kasan/shadow.c:105
> dw210x_op_rw+0xb6/0x180 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dw2102.c:102
> dw2102_load_firmware+0x2b4/0x970 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dw2102.c:1906
>
> Fix this by clamping the last chunk to the remaining bytes;
I sent this patch to syzbot for testing and it reported success.
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=f408eac9faa61d5a1927
Tested-by: syzbot+f408eac9faa61d5a1927@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Reported-by: syzbot+f408eac9faa61d5a1927@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=f408eac9faa61d5a1927
> Fixes: 7fd4828f6cc5 ("V4L/DVB (8421): Adds support for Dvbworld DVB-S 2102 USB card")
> Signed-off-by: Vasileios Almpanis <vasilisalmpanis@gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dw2102.c | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dw2102.c b/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dw2102.c
> index 4fecf2f965e9..4e26e1776977 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dw2102.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dw2102.c
> @@ -1902,9 +1902,11 @@ static int dw2102_load_firmware(struct usb_device *dev,
> if (p) {
> memcpy(p, fw->data, fw->size);
> for (i = 0; i < fw->size; i += 0x40) {
> + int len = min_t(size_t, fw->size - i, 0x40);
> +
> b = (u8 *)p + i;
> - if (dw210x_op_rw(dev, 0xa0, i, 0, b, 0x40,
> - DW210X_WRITE_MSG) != 0x40) {
> + if (dw210x_op_rw(dev, 0xa0, i, 0, b, len,
> + DW210X_WRITE_MSG) != len) {
> err("error while transferring firmware");
> ret = -EINVAL;
> break;
>
> ---
> base-commit: fcaeecb8b0cd44f77d03b28de0671258d4db18f8
> change-id: 20260806-dvb-307714ff6225
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Vasileios Almpanis <vasilisalmpanis@gmail.com>
>
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2026-08-06 17:47 [PATCH] media: dw2102: fix OOB read on firmware size not a multiple of 64 Vasileios Almpanis
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