Re: [PATCH v6 11/13] can: peak_usb: don't read past the message in PCAN-USB Pro decoders

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Low priority / nit picks for your consideration:

- [Low] The commit message overstates what the old
  pcan_usb_pro_wait_rsp() bug could do.

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can: peak_usb: don't read past the message in PCAN-USB Pro decoders

This commit adds bounds checks to pcan_usb_pro_decode_buf() and
pcan_usb_pro_wait_rsp(). With these checks, the record walk stops at the
end of the received message and no longer trusts the record count sent by
the device. pcan_usb_pro_wait_rsp() also now rejects a record that doesn't
fit in the received length.

> - pcan_usb_pro_wait_rsp() doesn't check the records against the
>   received length at all. Since the count is a 32-bit value, a bogus
>   response makes it walk the records past the command buffer.

[Severity: Low]
With the current callers, is the last sentence accurate? The code change
looks correct. It is less clear that the old walk could ever leave the
command buffer allocation.

pcan_usb_pro_get_can_channel_id() in
drivers/net/can/usb/peak_usb/pcan_usb_pro.c is the only caller of
pcan_usb_pro_wait_rsp(). It builds a 4-byte header plus an 8-byte
GETDEVID record in dev->cmd_buf:

pcan_usb_pro_get_can_channel_id() {
	...
	pc = pcan_msg_init_empty(&um, dev->cmd_buf, PCAN_USB_MAX_CMD_LEN);
	pcan_msg_add_rec(&um, PCAN_USBPRO_GETDEVID, dev->ctrl_idx);
	...
}

That makes um.rec_buffer_len 12. pcan_usb_pro_wait_rsp() passes that
length to usb_bulk_msg(), so the device can write at most 12 bytes.

peak_usb_create_dev() allocates dev->cmd_buf with
kzalloc(PCAN_USB_MAX_CMD_LEN), and PCAN_USB_MAX_CMD_LEN is 32. None of the
PCAN-USB Pro command builders write more than 12 bytes into it, so bytes
12-31 stay zero.

No record type 0x00 is defined, so pcan_usb_pro_sizeof_rec[0] is 0. All
record sizes are multiples of 4, and the largest is RXMSG8 at 20 bytes.

The old loop therefore reads type bytes the device controls only at
offsets 4 and 8. From offset 8 it can advance to offset 28 at most. There
it reads a zero type and stops on the !rec_len check, whatever value
rec_cnt has.

What the old code could do is read past actual_length. For example, it
could accept a truncated response with actual_length == 8 and a GETDEVID
record at offset 4. In that case it would return the stale request bytes
8-11 as dev_num. The new "pc + rec_len > rsp_end" check fixes that case.

Could the commit message describe this case instead, so that the stated
impact matches what the old pcan_usb_pro_wait_rsp() code could actually
do?

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