[PATCH net 0/5] nfc: fix HCI over NCI and NFCC loopback response handling
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From: Joas Antonio dos Santos <hidden>
Date: 2026-10-29 23:17:47
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Subsystem:
networking [general], nfc subsystem, the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, David Heidelberg, Linus Torvalds
Patch 1 fixes a regression: since commit 8265a626cc14 ("nfc: nci: fix double completion race in nci_data_exchange_complete") every data packet received on an NCI logical connection other than the static RF one is dropped, because only nci_transceive() sets NCI_DATA_EXCHANGE. That breaks HCI over NCI (st-nci) and nci_nfcc_loopback() entirely: every command times out. The commit is in mainline and in the 5.10+ stable trees. Patches 2 and 3 fix the handling of the stored response in those two paths. conn_info->rx_skb is never cleared after the response has been handed to the caller and freed, and a request can be completed without a new response (an HCP event or command received on the pipe, or an unrelated NCI response). The next command then reads, modifies and returns the freed skb, or dereferences NULL. Patches 4 and 5 bound the controller supplied pipe ids used as an index into the pipes[] array in the st21nfca and st-nci load_session handlers, as pointed out by sashiko. Testing: - Patches 1-3 were tested on arm64 QEMU with KASAN, using virtual_ncidev and a userspace NFCC emulator, plus a test-only ioctl in virtual_ncidev (not part of this series) that drives nci_core_conn_create(), nci_hci_dev_session_init(), nci_hci_get_param() and nci_nfcc_loopback() the way st-nci does. - Without patch 1, the response to the first ANY_OPEN_PIPE is dropped and nci_hci_dev_session_init() returns -ETIMEDOUT; with it, session init and HCP commands complete. - Without patches 2/3: slab-use-after-free in nci_hci_get_param() (HCP event instead of a response), null-ptr-deref in nci_hci_get_param() (no response stored yet), and a slab-use-after-free on the skb returned by the second nci_nfcc_loopback(). With them all three return -EPROTO, normal responses are still returned, and KASAN is quiet. - tools/testing/selftests/nci passes (8/8) with the series applied. - Patches 4 and 5 are compile tested only (W=1); I have no ST hardware. Sanghyun Park's pending "nfc: nci: Fix conn_info use-after-free" v5 touches the same functions in hci.c (it adds a NULL check for rx_skb, but does not clear it); whichever goes in second will need a rebase. Joas Antonio dos Santos (5): nfc: nci: don't drop data received on HCI and loopback connections nfc: nci: hci: consume the HCP response exactly once nfc: nci: consume the loopback response exactly once nfc: st21nfca: validate pipe ids in st21nfca_hci_load_session() nfc: st-nci: validate pipe ids in st_nci_hci_load_session() drivers/nfc/st-nci/se.c | 8 ++++ drivers/nfc/st21nfca/core.c | 8 ++++ net/nfc/nci/core.c | 18 ++++++-- net/nfc/nci/data.c | 9 +++- net/nfc/nci/hci.c | 83 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- 5 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-) -- 2.43.0