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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2026 21:33:19 +0200
Subject: bonding: refuse to enslave CAN devices
From: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
[ Upstream commit 8ba68464e4787b6a7ec938826e16124df20fd23d ]
syzbot reported a kernel paging request crash in
can_rx_unregister() inside net/can/af_can.c. The crash occurs
because a virtual CAN device (vxcan) is being enslaved to a
bonding master.
During the enslavement process, the bonding driver mutates
and modifies the network device states to fit an Ethernet-like
aggregation model. However, CAN devices operate on a completely
different Layer 2 architecture, relying on the CAN mid-layer
private data structure (can_ml_priv) instead of standard
Ethernet structures. Since bonding does not initialize or
maintain these CAN structures, subsequent operations on the
half-enslaved interface (such as closing associated sockets
via isotp_release) lead to a null-pointer dereference when
accessing the CAN receiver lists.
Bonding CAN interfaces is architecturally invalid as CAN lacks
MAC addresses, ARP capabilities, and standard Ethernet
link-layer mechanisms. While generic loopback devices are
blocked globally in net/core/dev.c, virtual CAN devices
bypass this check because they do not carry the IFF_LOOPBACK
flag, despite acting as local software-loopbacks.
Fix this by explicitly blocking network devices of type
ARPHRD_CAN from being enslaved at the very beginning of
bond_enslave(). This prevents illegal state mutations,
eliminates the resulting KASAN crashes, and avoids potential
memory leaks from incomplete socket cleanups.
As the CAN support has been added a long time after bonding
the Fixes-tag points to the introduction of ARPHRD_CAN that
would have needed a specific handling in bonding_main.c.
Fixes: cd05acfe65ed ("[CAN]: Allocate protocol numbers for PF_CAN")
Reported-by: syzbot+8ed98cbd0161632bce95@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=8ed98cbd0161632bce95
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh <jv@jvosburgh.net>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260526-bonding-candev-v1-1-ba1df400918a@hartkopp.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
index eb49ce486992de..d6a1e814878f28 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
@@ -1892,6 +1892,12 @@ int bond_enslave(struct net_device *bond_dev, struct net_device *slave_dev,
struct sockaddr_storage ss;
int res = 0, i;
+ if (slave_dev->type == ARPHRD_CAN) {
+ BOND_NL_ERR(bond_dev, extack,
+ "CAN devices cannot be enslaved");
+ return -EPERM;
+ }
+
if (slave_dev->flags & IFF_MASTER &&
!netif_is_bond_master(slave_dev)) {
BOND_NL_ERR(bond_dev, extack,
--
2.53.0