[BUG] drivers/net: out-of-bounds in ar5523_cmd_rx_cb()
From: co
Date: Thu Aug 27 2026 - 08:54:00 EST
We found a bug reachable in:
path drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar5523
crash out-of-bounds in ar5523_cmd_rx_cb()
commit 4e15e89faac9 ("net: bnxt: ring the doorbell when SW USO exits early")
Config, environment, the sanitizer report and a C reproducer follow.
== Notes ===============================================================
If you patch the bug based on our artifacts, a tag would be
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Reported-by: co+a27ae3497f0074da@xxxxxxx
Everything in this mail is validated by the reproducer below.
We also hold an LLM-generated root-cause analysis and a candidate
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unpatched kernel and runs clean on the patched one. Neither has had
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patch.diff https://bugs.sh/b/a27ae3497f0074da/patch.diff
report.md https://bugs.sh/b/a27ae3497f0074da/report.md
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== Environment =========================================================
Reproduced on 4e15e89faac9 ("net: bnxt: ring the doorbell when SW USO exits early")
VM setup https://bugs.sh/b/a27ae3497f0074da/run.sh
config https://bugs.sh/b/a27ae3497f0074da/config.gz
poc https://bugs.sh/b/a27ae3497f0074da/repro.c
== Sanitizer Report ====================================================
BUG: KASAN: out-of-bounds in ar5523_cmd_rx_cb (drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar5523/ar5523.c:83 (discriminator 6) drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar5523/ar5523.c:125 (discriminator 6))
Read of size 18446744071562067968 at addr ffff88800df00024 by task swapper/1/0
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 7.2.0+ #56 PREEMPTLAZY
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:94 lib/dump_stack.c:120)
print_report (mm/kasan/report.c:378 mm/kasan/report.c:482)
kasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:595)
kasan_check_range (mm/kasan/generic.c:186 mm/kasan/generic.c:200)
__asan_memcpy (mm/kasan/shadow.c:105 (discriminator 1))
ar5523_cmd_rx_cb (drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar5523/ar5523.c:83 (discriminator 6) drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar5523/ar5523.c:125 (discriminator 6))
__usb_hcd_giveback_urb (drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1657)
dummy_timer (drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c:2019 (discriminator 1))
__hrtimer_run_queues (kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2067 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2124)
hrtimer_run_softirq (kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2141)
handle_softirqs (kernel/softirq.c:645)
__irq_exit_rcu (kernel/softirq.c:679 kernel/softirq.c:519 kernel/softirq.c:767)
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt (arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062 (discriminator 35) arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062 (discriminator 35))
</IRQ>
asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt (./arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:674)
default_idle (./arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:62 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:768)
default_idle_call (kernel/sched/idle.c:122)
do_idle (kernel/sched/idle.c:199 kernel/sched/idle.c:355)
cpu_startup_entry (kernel/sched/idle.c:454 (discriminator 1))
start_secondary (arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:312)
common_startup_64 (arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S:418)
Allocated by task 45:
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88800df00000
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024
The buggy address is located 36 bytes inside of
1024-byte region [ffff88800df00000, ffff88800df00400)
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff88800defff00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
ffff88800defff80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff88800df00000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
^
ffff88800df00080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
ffff88800df00100: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
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