From: Zhao Feng <zhaofeng2@cmss.chinamobile.com>
To: greybus-dev@lists.linaro.org
Cc: johan@kernel.org, elder@kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
elder@ieee.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
syzbot+693652ded53d3eb9cb91@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
Zhao Feng <zhaofeng2@cmss.chinamobile.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] greybus: reject messages with claimed size smaller than header
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2026 09:33:36 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261109013336.1122-1-zhaofeng2@cmss.chinamobile.com> (raw)
gb_connection_recv() performs two sanity checks on received
messages: the receive buffer must hold at least a full message
header, and it must hold at least the message size claimed in the
header. Neither check verifies that the claimed message size
covers the header itself.
A message claiming a size smaller than sizeof(struct
gb_operation_msg_hdr) (e.g. 7) passes both checks when 8 or more
bytes were received, and the claimed size is then used as the
message size:
- gb_operation_create_incoming() computes
request_size = msg_size - sizeof(header), which underflows to
SIZE_MAX. The request handler then reads payload from a message
whose payload size is SIZE_MAX; syzbot reported this as a KASAN
global-buffer-overflow read in gb_svc_request_handler().
- gb_connection_recv_response() similarly computes
payload_size = size - sizeof(*header) for accepted short
responses, which underflows the same way.
Reject such messages up front in gb_connection_recv(). A claimed
size equal to the header size is valid (header only, no payload),
so the comparison must be strict.
Reported-by: syzbot+693652ded53d3eb9cb91@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzbot.org/bug?extid=693652ded53d3eb9cb91
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Zhao Feng <zhaofeng2@cmss.chinamobile.com>
---
No Fixes tag: the missing validation dates back to the original
greybus import; the introducing commit could not be verified with
the trees available to me.
Not runtime-tested (no greybus hardware). The affected function is
identical in current upstream master, so the patch applies there
as-is.
This also answers the question raised on the syzbot thread about
whether the underflow is reachable: it is, because the existing
checks compare the *received* size against the claimed size, never
the claimed size against the header size.
drivers/greybus/operation.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/greybus/operation.c b/drivers/greybus/operation.c
index 8459e9bc07..83b16c78f7 100644
--- a/drivers/greybus/operation.c
+++ b/drivers/greybus/operation.c
@@ -1046,6 +1046,12 @@ void gb_connection_recv(struct gb_connection *connection,
/* Use memcpy as data may be unaligned */
memcpy(&header, data, sizeof(header));
msg_size = le16_to_cpu(header.size);
+ if (msg_size < sizeof(header)) {
+ dev_err_ratelimited(dev,
+ "%s: malformed message received (%zu < %zu)\n",
+ connection->name, msg_size, sizeof(header));
+ return;
+ }
if (size < msg_size) {
dev_err_ratelimited(dev,
"%s: incomplete message 0x%04x of type 0x%02x received (%zu < %zu)\n",
--
2.39.2
next reply other threads:[~2026-11-09 1:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-09 1:33 Zhao Feng [this message]
2026-11-09 14:20 ` Alex Elder
2026-11-09 14:21 ` Alex Elder
2026-11-09 14:43 ` Alex Elder
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