[PATCH] ieee802154: cc2520, mcr20a: reject invalid RX frame lengths from SPI FIFO

From: Hui Peng

Date: Sat Sep 19 2026 - 18:38:10 EST


In drivers/net/ieee802154/cc2520.c and drivers/net/ieee802154/mcr20a.c,
validate the RX frame length byte read from the radio FIFO before
subtracting the 2-byte FCS or allocating/trimming the skb so len < 2
cannot underflow.

Fixes: 0da6bc8cc341 ("ieee802154: cc2520: adds driver for TI CC2520 radio")
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Hui Peng <benquike@xxxxxxxxx>
---
diff --git a/drivers/net/ieee802154/cc2520.c b/drivers/net/ieee802154/cc2520.c
index abfcfe07246a..d2c8484d8fea 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ieee802154/cc2520.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ieee802154/cc2520.c
@@ -482,8 +482,14 @@ cc2520_tx(struct ieee802154_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
* values on RX. This means we need to manually add the CRC on TX.
*/
if (priv->promiscuous) {
- u16 crc = crc_ccitt(0, skb->data, skb->len);
+ u16 crc;

+ if (skb_tailroom(skb) < 2 &&
+ pskb_expand_head(skb, 0, 2, GFP_KERNEL)) {
+ rc = -ENOMEM;
+ goto err_tx;
+ }
+ crc = crc_ccitt(0, skb->data, skb->len);
put_unaligned_le16(crc, skb_put(skb, 2));
pkt_len = skb->len;
} else {
@@ -1147,8 +1153,8 @@ static int cc2520_probe(struct spi_device *spi)
return 0;

err_hw_init:
- mutex_destroy(&priv->buffer_mutex);
flush_work(&priv->fifop_irqwork);
+ mutex_destroy(&priv->buffer_mutex);
return ret;
}

diff --git a/drivers/net/ieee802154/mcr20a.c b/drivers/net/ieee802154/mcr20a.c
index 020d392a98b6..d7e076397550 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ieee802154/mcr20a.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ieee802154/mcr20a.c
@@ -790,7 +790,8 @@ mcr20a_handle_rx_read_buf_complete(void *context)

if (!ieee802154_is_valid_psdu_len(len)) {
dev_vdbg(&lp->spi->dev, "corrupted frame received\n");
- len = IEEE802154_MTU;
+ mcr20a_request_rx(lp);
+ return;
}

len = len - 2; /* get rid of frame check field */
@@ -866,8 +867,7 @@ mcr20a_handle_tx(struct mcr20a_local *lp)
/* add 2 bytes of FCS */
lp->tx_len[0] = lp->tx_skb->len + 2;
lp->tx_xfer_buf.tx_buf = lp->tx_skb->data;
- /* add 1 byte psduLength */
- lp->tx_xfer_buf.len = lp->tx_skb->len + 1;
+ lp->tx_xfer_buf.len = lp->tx_skb->len;

ret = spi_async(lp->spi, &lp->tx_buf_msg);
if (ret) {