Re: [PATCH net] rndis_host: Check for integer overflows in rndis_rx_fixup()

From: Dan Carpenter

Date: Tue Sep 30 2025 - 10:19:40 EST


On Tue, Sep 30, 2025 at 03:56:39PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2025 at 03:35:19PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > The "data_offset" and "data_len" values come from received skb->data so
> > we don't trust them. They are u32 types. Check that the "data_offset +
> > data_len + 8" addition does not have an integer overflow.
> >
> > Fixes: 64e049102d3d ("[PATCH] USB: usbnet (8/9) module for RNDIS devices")
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/net/usb/rndis_host.c | 5 +++--
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> David has passed away many years ago, odd that this was sent to him
> given that get_maintainers.pl doesn't show it :(
>
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/rndis_host.c b/drivers/net/usb/rndis_host.c
> > index 7b3739b29c8f..913aca6ff434 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/usb/rndis_host.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/usb/rndis_host.c
> > @@ -513,8 +513,9 @@ int rndis_rx_fixup(struct usbnet *dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
> > data_len = le32_to_cpu(hdr->data_len);
> >
> > /* don't choke if we see oob, per-packet data, etc */
> > - if (unlikely(msg_type != RNDIS_MSG_PACKET || skb->len < msg_len
> > - || (data_offset + data_len + 8) > msg_len)) {
> > + if (unlikely(msg_type != RNDIS_MSG_PACKET || skb->len < msg_len ||
> > + size_add(data_offset, data_len) > U32_MAX - 8 ||
> > + (data_offset + data_len + 8) > msg_len)) {
>
> Nice, I missed this in my old audit of this code (there's still lots of
> other types of these bugs in this codebase, remember the rndis standard
> says "there is no security", and should never be used by untrusted
> devices.)
>
> But will this work? If size_add(x, y) wraps, it will return SIZE_MAX,
> which we hope is bigger than (U32_MAX - 8)? That feels fragile.
>

SIZE_MAX is always going to be >= U32_MAX so it works.

Right now size_t is exactly the same as unsigned long. I think we might
end up making it a separate thing so we can enforce stricter checking.

> Then we do:
> skb_pull(skb, 8 + data_offset);
> so if data_offset was huge, that doesn't really do anything, and then we
> treat data_len independent of data_offset. So even if that check
> overflowed, I don't think anything "real" will happen here except a
> packet is dropped.
>
> or am I missing something elsewhere in this function?

Yeah. You're right. I don't see anything very bad happening with an
integer overflow.

regards,
dan carpenter