CVE-2025-68257

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

comedi: check devices attached status in compat ioctls

Syzbot identified an issue [1] that crashes kernel, seemingly due to unexistent callback dev->get_valid_routes(). By all means, this should not occur as said callback must always be set to get_zero_valid_routes() in __comedi_device_postconfig().

As the crash seems to appear exclusively in i386 kernels, at least, judging from [1] reports, the blame lies with compat versions of standard IOCTL handlers. Several of them are modified and do not use comedi_unlocked_ioctl(). While functionality of these ioctls essentially copy their original versions, they do not have required sanity check for devices attached status. This, in turn, leads to a possibility of calling select IOCTLs on a device that has not been properly setup, even via COMEDI_DEVCONFIG.

Doing so on unconfigured devices means that several crucial steps are missed, for instance, specifying dev->get_valid_routes() callback.

Fix this somewhat crudely by ensuring devices attached status before performing any ioctls, improving logic consistency between modern and compat functions.

[1] Syzbot report: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 … CR2: ffffffffffffffd6 CR3: 000000006c717000 CR4: 0000000000352ef0 Call Trace: get_valid_routes drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:1322 [inline] parse_insn+0x78c/0x1970 drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:1401 do_insnlist_ioctl+0x272/0x700 drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:1594 compat_insnlist drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:3208 [inline] comedi_compat_ioctl+0x810/0x990 drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:3273 __do_compat_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:695 [inline] __se_compat_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:638 [inline] __ia32_compat_sys_ioctl+0x242/0x370 fs/ioctl.c:638 do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:83 [inline] …

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0de7d9cd07a2671fa6089173bccc0b2afe6b93ee
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/573b07d2e3d473ee7eb625ef87519922cf01168d
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aac80e912de306815297a3b74f0426873ffa7dc3
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f6e629dfe6f590091c662a87c9fcf118b1c1c7dc