From: Stefan Weil via qemu development <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
To: "César Belley" <cesar.belley@lse.epita.fr>,
"Gerd Hoffmann" <kraxel@redhat.com>,
"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-trivial@nongnu.org,
Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Subject: [PATCH for-11.0.0] Fix include statement for u2f-emu.h
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:45:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260318174522.87902-1-sw@weilnetz.de> (raw)
All examples on https://github.com/Agnoctopus/libu2f-emu/ don't
simply include u2f-emu.h without any added directory.
The additional include directory does not exist when libu2f
was built with meson.
It's up to pkgconfig to make sure that u2f-emu.h is found in any case.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
---
libu2f-emu seems to be unmaintained. There are no Debian/Ubuntu packages,
and I am afraid that it is also not part of the CI tests.
Should it be deprecated/removed?
I recently was asked by a user to add it to QEMU for Windows.
It seems to work basically, but the user also noticed some issues.
Regards
Stefan
Citing the user's feedback:
As promised, I have tested the u2f and so far, it works as expected.
However, I do have a few notes.
1)
If you send the u2f emulation a malformed USB HID packet either to the HID Control EP
or the HID Interrupt EP, it crashes QEmu. Windows will show the "busy" mouse cursor
for a few seconds and then it will shut down QEmu. I am guessing the u2f emulation
doesn't do much error checking on that part.
2)
There are two versions of the u2f, one dated 11/04/2017 and one dated 12/20/2023.
The emulation is for the later, not the former. There is enough of a difference that it
is not backward compatible. I wonder if a note can be placed in the documentation
that the emulation is for the version dated 12/20/2023.
old version (11/04/2017)
https://fidoalliance.org/specs/fido-u2f-v1.2-ps-20170411/
new version (12/20/2023)
https://fidoalliance.org/specs/u2f-specs-master/
3)
If I don't send a "challenge" request first, the u2f seems to still process a successful
transfer even though the CID value is invalid. I guess the emulation doesn't check
for a valid CID before processing the request. This is a huge security problem, though
only in emulation, not host related.
4) (not really a QEmu problem, but still worth mentioning)
The specs don't specifically state that each transaction must be only a 64-byte
USB transaction. For example, if you need to send a message that is two 64-byte packets,
you must send them as individual USB transactions. You cannot send a single 128-byte USB transaction.
After reading the specs a bit more, it is implied, but not directly specified.
It took me a little trial and error to figure this out. I had a message that was more
than 64 bytes and less than 128 bytes so I was sending a single 128-byte USB transaction.
The u2f emulation didn't like this and only works if I send two consecutive 64-byte USB transactions.
5)
I only used the following in my command line:
-device u2f-emulated
I did not try the 'passthru' nor the two following examples from the QEmu documentation.
-device u2f-emulated,dir=$dir
-device u2f-emulated,cert=$DIR1/$FILE1,priv=$DIR2/$FILE2,counter=$DIR3/$FILE3,entropy=$DIR4/$FILE4
All in all, if you have a properly coded u2f driver, I believe the QEmu u2f emulation to work as expected.
However, it does need some error checking added.
hw/usb/u2f-emulated.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/hw/usb/u2f-emulated.c b/hw/usb/u2f-emulated.c
index 196d05a83a..b82a315019 100644
--- a/hw/usb/u2f-emulated.c
+++ b/hw/usb/u2f-emulated.c
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
#include "hw/usb/usb.h"
#include "hw/core/qdev-properties.h"
-#include <u2f-emu/u2f-emu.h>
+#include <u2f-emu.h>
#include "u2f.h"
--
2.47.3
next reply other threads:[~2026-03-18 17:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-18 17:45 Stefan Weil via qemu development [this message]
2026-03-23 17:12 ` [PATCH for-11.0.0] Fix include statement for u2f-emu.h Peter Maydell
2026-03-23 17:22 ` Michael Tokarev
2026-03-23 21:10 ` Peter Maydell
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