Forwarded: [PATCH] greybus: operation: fix out-of-bounds write in message allocation

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Date: Wed Sep 02 2026 - 12:41:40 EST


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Subject: [PATCH] greybus: operation: fix out-of-bounds write in message allocation
Author: adrianox@xxxxxxxxx

#syz test

The incoming message size from the device header (header.size) is
trusted without checking that it is at least the size of the message
header itself, but a value smaller than sizeof(struct gb_operation_msg_hdr)
underflows request_size in gb_operation_create_incoming(), wraps around
in gb_operation_message_alloc(), and results in a tiny buffer that is
then written past its end in gb_operation_message_init().

Reject undersized messages before parsing the message header.

Fixes: 87d208feb74f ("greybus: embed message buffer into message structure")
Reported-by: syzbot+2fd6aefc361af86911d5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=2fd6aefc361af86911d5
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Assisted-by: opencode:deepseek v4 pro
Signed-off-by: Adriano Cordova <adrianox@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/greybus/operation.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/greybus/operation.c b/drivers/greybus/operation.c
index 7e12ffb2dd..df6daee4fb 100644
--- a/drivers/greybus/operation.c
+++ b/drivers/greybus/operation.c
@@ -1047,6 +1047,14 @@ void gb_connection_recv(struct gb_connection *connection,
/* Use memcpy as data may be unaligned */
memcpy(&header, data, sizeof(header));
msg_size = le16_to_cpu(header.size);
+ if (msg_size < sizeof(header)) {
+ dev_err_ratelimited(dev,
+ "%s: malformed message 0x%04x of type 0x%02x received (%zu < %zu)\n",
+ connection->name,
+ le16_to_cpu(header.operation_id),
+ header.type, msg_size, sizeof(header));
+ return;
+ }
if (size < msg_size) {
dev_err_ratelimited(dev,
"%s: incomplete message 0x%04x of type 0x%02x received (%zu < %zu)\n",
--
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