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From: Liu Chao <liuc63@xiaopeng.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	khtsai@google.com, fangxy@xiaopeng.com,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 0/2] usb: gadget: u_ether: fix out-of-bounds read in get_ether_addr
Date: Thu,  5 Nov 2026 15:21:45 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261105072147.3383565-1-liuc63@xiaopeng.com> (raw)

Rework of

  [PATCH v2] usb: gadget: u_ether: fix out-of-bounds read in get_ether_addr
  https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261104025058.2650911-1-liuc63@xiaopeng.com/

following Andy's review: 1/2 prepares a parse_mac_pton() helper in
lib/net_utils.c, 2/2 uses it in get_ether_addr().

The two patches belong to different trees: 1/2 touches lib/ and should go
via netdev or -mm, 2/2 is for the USB tree.  2/2 depends on 1/2, so it
can only be applied once 1/2 has reached Linus' tree.

Changes since v2:
  - 1/2: pick up Andy's Reviewed-by, no code change
  - 2/2: keep the separator-less notation "aabbccddeeff" working by
    falling back to hex2bin() when parse_mac_pton() does not match, as
    suggested by Andy
  - 2/2: drop the Fixes tag.  commit 2b3d942c4878 ("usb ethernet gadget:
    split out network core") only copies the loop into the new
    u_ether.c; in drivers/usb/gadget/ether.c it is already present in
    commit 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2"), so the defect predates the
    git history and there is no mainline commit to point at
  - 2/2: spell out in the log which notations stop being accepted

Changes since v1:
  - rework the fix on top of parse_mac_pton() as suggested by Andy
    instead of open coding the bounds checks in get_ether_addr()
  - add the KASAN report and the malformed address example that v1 was
    missing, both collected on a KASAN build by loading g_ether with a
    short and with a non-hex dev_addr
  - select GENERIC_NET_UTILS for USB_U_ETHER
  - drop Cc: stable: 2/2 calls parse_mac_pton(), which 1/2 introduces,
    so it cannot be backported to any stable tree on its own

One user visible effect remains: the Cisco notation "aabb.ccdd.eeff" and
irregular groupings such as "123456:789abc" are no longer parsed and now
fall back to a random address.  Details are in the log of 2/2.

Liu Chao (2):
  lib/net_utils: allow mac_pton() to take a custom delimiter
  usb: gadget: u_ether: fix out-of-bounds read in get_ether_addr

 drivers/usb/gadget/Kconfig            |  1 +
 drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_ether.c | 18 ++++++++----------
 include/linux/hex.h                   |  7 ++++++-
 lib/net_utils.c                       | 17 ++++++++++++++---
 4 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)


base-commit: a5ebb76233b79db01e82e061173cb73c6d2b5c6b
-- 
2.50.1


             reply	other threads:[~2026-11-05  7:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-11-05  7:21 Liu Chao [this message]
2026-11-05  7:21 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] lib/net_utils: allow mac_pton() to take a custom delimiter Liu Chao
2026-11-05  7:21 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] usb: gadget: u_ether: fix out-of-bounds read in get_ether_addr Liu Chao
2026-11-05 12:13   ` Andy Shevchenko

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