[lvc-project] [PATCH v2] can: kvaser_pciefd: refine error prone echo_skb_max handling logic

Fedor Pchelkin pchelkin at ispras.ru
Wed May 28 22:27:12 MSK 2025


echo_skb_max should define the supported upper limit of echo_skb[]
allocated inside the netdevice's priv. The corresponding size value
provided by this driver to alloc_candev() is KVASER_PCIEFD_CAN_TX_MAX_COUNT
which is 17.

But later echo_skb_max is rounded up to the nearest power of two (for the
max case, that would be 32) and the tx/ack indices calculated further
during tx/rx may exceed the upper array boundary. Kasan reported this for
the ack case inside kvaser_pciefd_handle_ack_packet(), though the xmit
function has actually caught the same thing earlier.

 BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in kvaser_pciefd_handle_ack_packet+0x2d7/0x92a drivers/net/can/kvaser_pciefd.c:1528
 Read of size 8 at addr ffff888105e4f078 by task swapper/4/0

 CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/4 Not tainted 6.15.0 #12 PREEMPT(voluntary)
 Call Trace:
  <IRQ>
 dump_stack_lvl lib/dump_stack.c:122
 print_report mm/kasan/report.c:521
 kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:634
 kvaser_pciefd_handle_ack_packet drivers/net/can/kvaser_pciefd.c:1528
 kvaser_pciefd_read_packet drivers/net/can/kvaser_pciefd.c:1605
 kvaser_pciefd_read_buffer drivers/net/can/kvaser_pciefd.c:1656
 kvaser_pciefd_receive_irq drivers/net/can/kvaser_pciefd.c:1684
 kvaser_pciefd_irq_handler drivers/net/can/kvaser_pciefd.c:1733
 __handle_irq_event_percpu kernel/irq/handle.c:158
 handle_irq_event kernel/irq/handle.c:210
 handle_edge_irq kernel/irq/chip.c:833
 __common_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/irq.c:296
 common_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/irq.c:286
  </IRQ>

Tx max count definitely matters for kvaser_pciefd_tx_avail(), but for seq
numbers' generation that's not the case - we're free to calculate them as
would be more convenient, not taking tx max count into account. The only
downside is that the size of echo_skb[] should correspond to the max seq
number (not tx max count), so in some situations a bit more memory would
be consumed than could be.

Thus make the size of the underlying echo_skb[] sufficient for the rounded
max tx value.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.

Fixes: 8256e0ca6010 ("can: kvaser_pciefd: Fix echo_skb race")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Fedor Pchelkin <pchelkin at ispras.ru>
---

v2: fix the problem by rounding up the KVASER_PCIEFD_CAN_TX_MAX_COUNT
    constant when allocating candev (Axel Forsman)

 drivers/net/can/kvaser_pciefd.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/can/kvaser_pciefd.c b/drivers/net/can/kvaser_pciefd.c
index f6921368cd14..0071a51ce2c1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/can/kvaser_pciefd.c
+++ b/drivers/net/can/kvaser_pciefd.c
@@ -966,7 +966,7 @@ static int kvaser_pciefd_setup_can_ctrls(struct kvaser_pciefd *pcie)
 		u32 status, tx_nr_packets_max;
 
 		netdev = alloc_candev(sizeof(struct kvaser_pciefd_can),
-				      KVASER_PCIEFD_CAN_TX_MAX_COUNT);
+				      roundup_pow_of_two(KVASER_PCIEFD_CAN_TX_MAX_COUNT));
 		if (!netdev)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -995,7 +995,6 @@ static int kvaser_pciefd_setup_can_ctrls(struct kvaser_pciefd *pcie)
 		can->tx_max_count = min(KVASER_PCIEFD_CAN_TX_MAX_COUNT, tx_nr_packets_max - 1);
 
 		can->can.clock.freq = pcie->freq;
-		can->can.echo_skb_max = roundup_pow_of_two(can->tx_max_count);
 		spin_lock_init(&can->lock);
 
 		can->can.bittiming_const = &kvaser_pciefd_bittiming_const;
-- 
2.49.0




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