[BUG] drivers/usb: out-of-bounds in xhci_queue_bulk_tx()

From: co

Date: Thu Aug 27 2026 - 08:57:20 EST


We found a bug reachable in:

path drivers/usb/host
crash out-of-bounds in xhci_queue_bulk_tx()
commit bd5f485f3f02 ("Merge tag 'soc-arm-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc")

Config, environment, the sanitizer report and a C reproducer follow.

== Notes ===============================================================
If you patch the bug based on our artifacts, a tag would be
appreciated:

Reported-by: co+fd80bc5967eb22c3@xxxxxxx

Everything in this mail is validated by the reproducer below.

We also hold an LLM-generated root-cause analysis and a candidate
patch. The patch passes an A/B test: the same reproducer panics the
unpatched kernel and runs clean on the patched one. Neither has had
human review, so both still require validation before you send or
apply them. Available on:

patch.diff https://bugs.sh/b/fd80bc5967eb22c3/patch.diff
report.md https://bugs.sh/b/fd80bc5967eb22c3/report.md

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== Environment =========================================================
Reproduced on bd5f485f3f02 ("Merge tag 'soc-arm-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc")
VM setup https://bugs.sh/b/fd80bc5967eb22c3/run.sh
config https://bugs.sh/b/fd80bc5967eb22c3/config.gz
poc https://bugs.sh/b/fd80bc5967eb22c3/repro.c

== Sanitizer Report ====================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in xhci_queue_bulk_tx (drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c:3564 (discriminator 6) drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c:3673 (discriminator 6))
Write of size 1024 at addr ffff88801489b400 by task exploit/146
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 146 Comm: exploit Not tainted 7.2.0+ #9 PREEMPTLAZY
Call Trace:
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:106 (discriminator 1))
xhci_queue_bulk_tx (drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c:3564 (discriminator 6) drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c:3673 (discriminator 6))
xhci_urb_enqueue (drivers/usb/host/xhci.c:1701)
usb_hcd_submit_urb (drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1542)
proc_do_submiturb (drivers/usb/core/devio.c:1967)
usbdev_ioctl (drivers/usb/core/devio.c:2002 drivers/usb/core/devio.c:2702 drivers/usb/core/devio.c:2826)
__x64_sys_ioctl (fs/ioctl.c:51 fs/ioctl.c:597 fs/ioctl.c:583 fs/ioctl.c:583)
do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84)
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121)
Allocated by task 75:
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88801489b400
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-512 of size 512
The buggy address is located 0 bytes inside of
allocated 512-byte region [ffff88801489b400, ffff88801489b600)
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff88801489b500: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
ffff88801489b580: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>ffff88801489b600: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
^
ffff88801489b680: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
ffff88801489b700: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc


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