In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: can: bcm: add locking when...
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📋 Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
can: bcm: add locking when updating filter and timer values
KCSAN detected a simultaneous access to timer values that can be overwritten in bcm_rx_setup() when updating timer and filter content while bcm_rx_handler(), bcm_rx_timeout_handler() or bcm_rx_thr_handler() run concurrently on incoming CAN traffic.
Protect the timer (ival1/ival2/kt_ival1/kt_ival2/kt_lastmsg) and filter (nframes/flags/frames/last_frames) updates in bcm_rx_setup() with a new per-op bcm_rx_update_lock, taken with the matching scope in the RX handlers. memcpy_from_msg() is staged into a temporary buffer before the lock is taken, since it can sleep and must not run under a spinlock.
hrtimer_cancel() is always called without bcm_rx_update_lock held, since bcm_rx_timeout_handler()/bcm_rx_thr_handler() take the same lock and a running callback would otherwise deadlock against the canceller.
Also close a related race: bcm_rx_setup() cleared the RTR flag in the stored reply frame's can_id as a separate, unprotected step after the frame content was already installed, so a concurrent bcm_rx_handler() could transmit a stale reply with CAN_RTR_FLAG still set. Fold that normalization into the initial frame preparation instead (on the staged buffer for updates, directly on op->frames pre-registration for new ops), so the installed frame is always atomically self-consistent.
bcm_rx_handler()'s RX_RTR_FRAME check now takes a lock-protected snapshot of op->flags before deciding whether to call bcm_can_tx(), but does not hold the lock across that call.
Also take a lock-protected snapshot of the currframe in bcm_can_tx() to avoid partly overwrites by content updates in bcm_tx_setup(). Finally check if a TX_RESET_MULTI_IDX/SETTIMER might have reset op->currframe between the two locked sections in bcm_can_tx().
Omit calling hrtimer_forward() with zero interval in bcm_rx_thr_handler(). kt_ival2 may have been concurrently cleared by bcm_rx_setup() before it cancels this timer, so check kt_ival2 inside the bcm_rx_update_lock.
🔗 References (10)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-72121
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19b1994069dd29478ba767de1f98f14a088198dc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/749179c2e25b95d22499ed29096b3e02d6dfd2b4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/834cbca3b12e46887f7a9b35f1981a888360ea4c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7eb6db1cd3f7b556a301dc1265945ad112089f7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fc9f5ee1b073bd233d9c604e338af4ebb42cbc33
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/96994180bd7b248b0cc698afe926e23fc1bda59b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7c369e7da8203e2b5be12bbcac7b9ab2ed5b658
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/caa8704a7f3cb7806331596195385437126ecb3a
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-85wx-h4w2-c465