kernel/linux.git/net/nfc/hci, branch linux-7.1.y

nfc: hci: fix out-of-bounds read in HCP header parsing

2026-05-07T10:42:09+00:00

Both nfc_hci_recv_from_llc() and nci_hci_data_received_cb() read packet->header from skb->data at function entry without first checking that the buffer holds at least one byte. A malicious NFC peer can send a 0-byte HCP frame that passes through the SHDLC layer and reaches these functions, causing an out-of-bounds heap read of packet->header. The same 0-byte frame, if queued as a non-final fragment, also causes the reassembly loop to underflow msg_len to UINT_MAX, triggering skb_over_panic() when the reassembled skb is written. Fix this by adding a pskb_may_pull() check at the entry of each function before packet->header is first accessed. The existing pskb_may_pull() checks before the reassembled hcp_skb is cast to struct hcp_packet remain in place to guard the 2-byte HCP message header. Fixes: 8b8d2e08bf0d ("NFC: HCI support") Fixes: 11f54f228643 ("NFC: nci: Add HCI over NCI protocol support") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Signed-off-by: Ashutosh Desai Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260505170712.96560-1-ashutoshdesai993@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David Heidelberg

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

nfc: hci: shdlc: Stop timers and work before freeing context

2026-02-06T02:46:20+00:00

llc_shdlc_deinit() purges SHDLC skb queues and frees the llc_shdlc structure while its timers and state machine work may still be active. Timer callbacks can schedule sm_work, and sm_work accesses SHDLC state and the skb queues. If teardown happens in parallel with a queued/running work item, it can lead to UAF and other shutdown races. Stop all SHDLC timers and cancel sm_work synchronously before purging the queues and freeing the context. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE. Fixes: 4a61cd6687fc ("NFC: Add an shdlc llc module to llc core") Signed-off-by: Votokina Victoria Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260203113158.2008723-1-Victoria.Votokina@kaspersky.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

treewide, timers: Rename from_timer() to timer_container_of()

2025-06-08T07:07:37+00:00

Move this API to the canonical timer_*() namespace. [ tglx: Redone against pre rc1 ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aB2X0jCKQO56WdMt@gmail.com

treewide: Switch/rename to timer_delete[_sync]()

2025-04-05T08:30:12+00:00

timer_delete[_sync]() replaces del_timer[_sync](). Convert the whole tree over and remove the historical wrapper inlines. Conversion was done with coccinelle plus manual fixups where necessary. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

nfc: hci: Remove unused nfc_llc_unregister

2025-02-20T03:04:26+00:00

nfc_llc_unregister() has been unused since it was added in 2012's commit 67cccfe17d1b ("NFC: Add an LLC Core layer to HCI") Remove it. Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert Reviewed-by: Kalesh AP Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250219020258.297995-1-linux@treblig.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

nfc: hci: Save a few bytes of memory when registering a 'nfc_llc' engine

2024-02-06T14:36:06+00:00

nfc_llc_register() calls pass a string literal as the 'name' parameter. So kstrdup_const() can be used instead of kfree() to avoid a memory allocation in such cases. Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

nfc: hci: Introduce nfc_llc_del_engine() to reduce code duplication

2024-02-06T14:36:06+00:00

Add a new helper to avoid code duplication between nfc_llc_exit() and nfc_llc_unregister(). Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

NFC: hci: Split memcpy() of struct hcp_message flexible array

2022-09-27T14:45:18+00:00

To work around a misbehavior of the compiler's ability to see into composite flexible array structs (as detailed in the coming memcpy() hardening series[1]), split the memcpy() of the header and the payload so no false positive run-time overflow warning will be generated. This split already existed for the "firstfrag" case, so just generalize the logic further. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/20220901065914.1417829-2-keescook@chromium.org/ Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Paolo Abeni Reported-by: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220924040835.3364912-1-keescook@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski