Re: [PATCH] Bluetooth: bpa10x: check response length in bpa10x_setup()

From: Weiming Shi

Date: Wed Jul 01 2026 - 11:51:07 EST


Pauli Virtanen <pav@xxxxxx> 于2026年7月1日周三 03:04写道:
>
> Hi,
>
> ma, 2026-06-29 kello 23:28 -0700, Weiming Shi kirjoitti:
> > bpa10x_setup() sends the vendor command 0xfc0e and passes the response
> > to bt_dev_info() and hci_set_fw_info() as a "%s" string starting at
> > skb->data + 1, without checking the length:
> >
> > bt_dev_info(hdev, "%s", (char *)(skb->data + 1));
> > hci_set_fw_info(hdev, "%s", skb->data + 1);
> >
> > A device that returns a one-byte response (status only) leaves
> > skb->data + 1 past the end of the data, and the %s walk reads adjacent
> > slab memory until it meets a NUL. The same happens when the payload is
> > not NUL-terminated within skb->len. The out-of-bounds bytes end up in
> > the kernel log and the firmware-info debugfs file.
> >
> > Bail out if the response is too short or not NUL-terminated.
> >
> > Fixes: ddd68ec8f484 ("Bluetooth: bpa10x: Read revision information in setup stage")
> > Reported-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@xxxxxxx>
> > Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
> > Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/bluetooth/bpa10x.c | 6 ++++++
> > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/bluetooth/bpa10x.c b/drivers/bluetooth/bpa10x.c
> > index 2ae38a321c4b..07c6ed6f18ac 100644
> > --- a/drivers/bluetooth/bpa10x.c
> > +++ b/drivers/bluetooth/bpa10x.c
> > @@ -255,6 +255,12 @@ static int bpa10x_setup(struct hci_dev *hdev)
> > if (IS_ERR(skb))
> > return PTR_ERR(skb);
> >
> > + /* Reject a short or non-terminated response before the %s reads. */
> > + if (skb->len < 2 || skb->data[skb->len - 1] != '\0') {
> > + kfree_skb(skb);
> > + return -EILSEQ;
> > + }
>
> Was this tested on real hardware?
>
> With an out-of-bounds access fix like the above in btmtk some weeks
> ago, it turned out HW actually was sending truncated data, and it was
> found only later in production use that the driver was broken by the
> fix.
>
> > +
> > bt_dev_info(hdev, "%s", (char *)(skb->data + 1));
> >
> > hci_set_fw_info(hdev, "%s", skb->data + 1);
>
> --
> Pauli Virtanen

Right, -EILSEQ is too aggressive. It would break a device that sends a
short or unterminated response. v2 uses "%.*s" bounded to skb->len - 1
and drops the error return.

No real hardware here. Tested with dummy_hcd + raw-gadget .

Thanks.