Re: [PATCH] comedi: dt2811: fix shift-out-of-bounds in dt2811_attach()
From: Ian Abbott
Date: Wed Sep 23 2026 - 07:47:02 EST
On 2026-09-23 07:08, Rohinthan P wrote:
In dt2811_attach(), the driver checks whether the user-supplied IRQ in
it->options[1] is valid for async command support using:
if (it->options[1] <= 7 && (BIT(it->options[1]) & 0xac))
Because it->options[1] is a signed integer, passing a negative value
(such as -251) satisfies it->options[1] <= 7 and causes the BIT()
macro to evaluate a negative shift exponent (1UL << -251), resulting in
undefined behavior and triggering a UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds warning:
UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in drivers/comedi/drivers/dt2811.c
shift exponent -251 is negative
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5925 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted
Call Trace:
dt2811_attach.cold+0x19/0x1e drivers/comedi/drivers/dt2811.c:570
comedi_device_attach+0x40e/0x6b0 drivers/comedi/drivers.c:1101
do_devconfig_ioctl+0x1b3/0x6d0 drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:930
Only IRQs 2, 3, 5, and 7 are valid on the DT2811. Add a check that
it->options[1] >= 2 before evaluating BIT(it->options[1]) to avoid
negative shift values.
Fixes: 8ffdff6a8cfb ("staging: comedi: move out of staging directory")
Reported-by: syzbot+a4cedab706d0a8a3f988@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=a4cedab706d0a8a3f988
Signed-off-by: Rohinthan P <rokinthanp03@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/comedi/drivers/dt2811.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/comedi/drivers/dt2811.c b/drivers/comedi/drivers/dt2811.c
index bcc4b5e..813b1aa 100644
--- a/drivers/comedi/drivers/dt2811.c
+++ b/drivers/comedi/drivers/dt2811.c
@@ -564,7 +564,8 @@ static int dt2811_attach(struct comedi_device *dev, struct comedi_devconfig *it)
dt2811_reset(dev);
/* IRQ's 2,3,5,7 are valid for async command support */
- if (it->options[1] <= 7 && (BIT(it->options[1]) & 0xac)) {
+ if (it->options[1] >= 2 && it->options[1] <= 7 &&
+ (BIT(it->options[1]) & 0xac)) {
ret = request_irq(it->options[1], dt2811_interrupt, 0,
dev->board_name, dev);
if (ret == 0)
Thanks for the fix. Your patch looks fine, but there was another patch posted recently that fixes the same bug in a similar way (it used >= 0 instead of >= 2) :
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260922091939.GKvofurpBYesWLI8gPcW8CiW4eRuvtPwH7-hn1IVL8o@z/
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