Bug 2516398 (CVE-2026-72121)

Summary: CVE-2026-72121 kernel: can: bcm: add locking when updating filter and timer values
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Controller Area Network (CAN) Broadcom (bcm) driver. A race condition exists when the driver attempts to update filter and timer values simultaneously with ongoing receive operations. This can lead to the transmission of stale CAN reply frames with an incorrect Remote Transmission Request (RTR) flag set, potentially causing incorrect communication or unexpected behavior on the CAN bus.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-15 06:10:23 UTC
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.