[PATCH v2] usb: usbfs: clamp actual_length to transfer_buffer_length
From: Cheng Yongkang
Date: Sun Nov 01 2026 - 02:07:21 EST
usbfs uses urb->actual_length from the host controller driver without
checking it against the buffer it allocated. For a completed
non-isochronous IN URB, processcompl() and processcompl_compat() copy
that many bytes to userspace and report the same value, and
async_completed() passes it to snoop_urb_data() when usbfs_snoop is
enabled.
With USB/IP, the value comes from the remote peer. If the peer returns
actual_length=88 for a 24-byte control-IN transfer, usbip_recv_xbuff()
rejects the length, but VHCI still gives back the URB with -EPROTO and
actual_length=88. usbfs copies data from failed URBs too, since they
can carry valid partial data, so reaping the URB reads past the buffer:
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in _copy_to_user
copy_urb_data_to_user
With usbfs_snoop enabled, hex_dump_to_buffer() reads past the buffer
earlier, when the URB completes.
Clamp urb->actual_length in async_completed() while holding ps->lock,
before the completion is snooped or can be reaped. The copy, the
reported length and the snoop dump then stay within
transfer_buffer_length.
Tested on usb-linus e971f4f365ba with KASAN, using a synthetic USB/IP
peer that returns 88 bytes for a 24-byte control-IN transfer. Without
this change, reaping the URB hits the report above, and with
usbfs_snoop enabled the completion hits it in hex_dump_to_buffer().
With it, the URB is reaped with -EPROTO and actual_length=24 in both
cases. Full and short control-IN and control-OUT transfers through
usbfs still work.
Fixes: 0880aef49e40a ("USB: usbfs_snoop: add data logging back in")
Fixes: d4a4683ca054e ("USB: usbfs: only copy the actual data received")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Cheng Yongkang <teel4res@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v2:
- Clamp urb->actual_length in async_completed() instead of only the
copy length in copy_urb_data_to_user(), so the reported length and
the snoop dump are bounded too, as pointed out in review [2].
- Fix the Fixes tags; v1 named a later scatter-gather refactor.
- Send separately. The USB/IP patch in v1 duplicates Sung Byeongchan's
earlier submission [1], which covers only the VHCI receive-failure
path, so usbfs still needs its own bound.
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-usb/179328314074.648427.8187049654053191605@xxxxxxxxx/
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-usb/20261009122636.642575-1-tjdqudcks0424@xxxxxxxxx/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-usb/sashiko-outbox-189547@xxxxxxxxxx/
drivers/usb/core/devio.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/devio.c b/drivers/usb/core/devio.c
index 101cb9425..7319e8b98 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/devio.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/devio.c
@@ -633,6 +633,8 @@ static void async_completed(struct urb *urb)
spin_lock_irqsave(&ps->lock, flags);
list_move_tail(&as->asynclist, &ps->async_completed);
as->status = urb->status;
+ if (urb->actual_length > urb->transfer_buffer_length)
+ urb->actual_length = urb->transfer_buffer_length;
signr = as->signr;
if (signr) {
errno = as->status;
base-commit: e971f4f365bad51d01bc90db55b56fdb3124f963
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2.34.1