From: Samuel Page <sam@bynar.io>
To: David Heidelberg <david@ixit.cz>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
oe-linux-nfc@lists.linux.dev, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
Samuel Page <sam@bynar.io>
Subject: [PATCH net] nfc: nci: fix out-of-bounds write in nci_target_auto_activated()
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:52:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260622145243.3167276-1-sam@bynar.io> (raw)
nci_target_auto_activated() appends a target to the fixed-size array
ndev->targets[NCI_MAX_DISCOVERED_TARGETS] and increments ndev->n_targets
without first checking the array is full; unlike its sibling
nci_add_new_target(), which bails out when n_targets already equals
NCI_MAX_DISCOVERED_TARGETS.
ndev->n_targets is only cleared by nci_clear_target_list(), so an NFCC
that repeatedly re-runs discovery (RF_DISCOVER_RSP, which re-enters
NCI_DISCOVERY without clearing the target list) and reports an
auto-activated target (RF_INTF_ACTIVATED_NTF) drives n_targets past the
limit. The append then writes a struct nfc_target past the end of the
array (a slab out-of-bounds write), and nfc_targets_found() goes on to
walk the array with the inflated count:
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in nci_add_new_protocol+0x94/0x2ac [nci]
Write of size 2 at addr ffff0000c7299a18 by task kworker/u8:0/12
Workqueue: nfc0_nci_rx_wq nci_rx_work [nci]
Call trace:
nci_add_new_protocol+0x94/0x2ac [nci]
nci_ntf_packet+0xddc/0x11a0 [nci]
nci_rx_work+0x15c/0x1e0 [nci]
process_one_work+0x2dc/0x500
worker_thread+0x240/0x460
kthread+0x1c0/0x1d0
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
The buggy address belongs to the cache kmalloc-2k of size 2048
The buggy address is located 1024 bytes to the right of
allocated 1560-byte region [ffff0000c7299000, ffff0000c7299618)
Guard nci_target_auto_activated() with the same check used by
nci_add_new_target().
Fixes: 019c4fbaa790 ("NFC: Add NCI multiple targets support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: Bynario AI
Signed-off-by: Samuel Page <sam@bynar.io>
---
net/nfc/nci/ntf.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/nfc/nci/ntf.c b/net/nfc/nci/ntf.c
index c96512bb8653..566ca839fa48 100644
--- a/net/nfc/nci/ntf.c
+++ b/net/nfc/nci/ntf.c
@@ -603,6 +603,12 @@ static void nci_target_auto_activated(struct nci_dev *ndev,
struct nfc_target *target;
int rc;
+ /* This is a new target, check if we've enough room */
+ if (ndev->n_targets == NCI_MAX_DISCOVERED_TARGETS) {
+ pr_debug("not enough room, ignoring new target...\n");
+ return;
+ }
+
target = &ndev->targets[ndev->n_targets];
rc = nci_add_new_protocol(ndev, target, ntf->rf_protocol,
base-commit: 47186409c092cd7dd70350999186c700233e854d
--
2.54.0
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