From: liuc63 <liuc63@xiaopeng.com>
To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: khtsai@google.com, andriy.shevchenko@intel.com,
fangxy@xiaopeng.com, rdunlap@infradead.org,
dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
Liu Chao <liuc63@xiaopeng.com>
Subject: [PATCH] usb: gadget: u_ether: fix out-of-bounds read in get_ether_addr
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 19:00:59 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261023110113.2969708-1-liuc63@xiaopeng.com> (raw)
get_ether_addr() parses a MAC address string with a fixed six-iteration
loop, unconditionally calling hex_to_bin() twice per iteration. It never
checks for the terminating NUL, so a short string supplied through the
configfs dev_addr attribute (e.g. "ab") makes the parser read past the
end of the buffer, triggering a slab-out-of-bounds read reported by
KASAN. hex_to_bin() also returns -1 for non-hex characters, which is
shifted and OR'ed into dev_addr.
Bail out as soon as the string ends or a non-hex digit is found, routing
all failure paths through the existing eth_random_addr() fallback so that
dev_addr is always fully initialized before the function returns.
Fixes: 2b3d942c4878 ("usb ethernet gadget: split out network core")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Fang Xieyan <fangxy@xiaopeng.com>
Signed-off-by: Liu Chao <liuc63@xiaopeng.com>
---
drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_ether.c | 17 +++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_ether.c b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_ether.c
index 59d85d6a84a8..12edad59ddc3 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_ether.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_ether.c
@@ -689,17 +689,26 @@ static int get_ether_addr(const char *str, u8 *dev_addr)
unsigned i;
for (i = 0; i < 6; i++) {
- unsigned char num;
+ int hi, lo;
+ if (!*str)
+ goto fail;
if ((*str == '.') || (*str == ':'))
str++;
- num = hex_to_bin(*str++) << 4;
- num |= hex_to_bin(*str++);
- dev_addr [i] = num;
+ if (!*str)
+ goto fail;
+ hi = hex_to_bin(*str++);
+ if (hi < 0 || !*str)
+ goto fail;
+ lo = hex_to_bin(*str++);
+ if (lo < 0)
+ goto fail;
+ dev_addr[i] = (hi << 4) | lo;
}
if (is_valid_ether_addr(dev_addr))
return 0;
}
+fail:
eth_random_addr(dev_addr);
return 1;
}
--
2.50.1
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