CVE-2026-72118

can: bcm: fix CAN frame rx/tx statistics

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Aug 15, 2026
Updated
Aug 19, 2026
Reserved
Aug 9, 2026

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Description

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

can: bcm: fix CAN frame rx/tx statistics

KCSAN detected a data race within the bcm_rx_handler() when two CAN frames have been simultaneously received and processed in a single rx op by two different CPUs.

Use atomic operations with (signed) long data types to access the statistics in the hot path to fix the KCSAN complaint.

Additionally simplify the update and check of statistics overflow by using the atomic operations in separate bcm_update_[rx|tx]_stats() functions. The rx variant runs under bcm_rx_update_lock to prevent races when resetting the two rx counters; the tx variant runs under bcm_tx_lock and only needs to guard its own counter's overflow.

As the rx path resets its values already at LONG_MAX / 100, there is no conflict between the two locking domains (bcm_rx_update_lock vs. bcm_tx_lock) even for ops that use both paths.

The rx statistics update and the frames_filtered update in bcm_rx_changed() were previously performed in two separate bcm_rx_update_lock sections. For an rx op subscribed on all interfaces (ifindex == 0), bcm_rx_handler() can run concurrently on different CPUs, so a counter reset by one CPU between these two sections could leave frames_filtered larger than frames_abs on another CPU, producing a bogus (even negative) reduction percentage in procfs. Update the statistics in the same critical section as bcm_rx_changed() to close this gap, which also removes the now unneeded extra lock/unlock pair around the traffic_flags calculation.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • ffd980f976e7fd666c2e61bf8ab35107efd11828 to before 640acf3566fc897065127001be875ebc5401c218Affected
  • ffd980f976e7fd666c2e61bf8ab35107efd11828 to before 47fca0d1620f2d4fab0677564989ef2b9c225c66Affected
  • ffd980f976e7fd666c2e61bf8ab35107efd11828 to before fd75884eae40a7be47867cbfc9fc84a80bb8ddb4Affected
  • ffd980f976e7fd666c2e61bf8ab35107efd11828 to before 8b2783172d92edd650de6006ebd1c800937021abAffected
  • ffd980f976e7fd666c2e61bf8ab35107efd11828 to before 970caff5c1a63702c80e08d920256bcb5f88ecc5Affected
  • ffd980f976e7fd666c2e61bf8ab35107efd11828 to before 8104bcdb2612fdda95169ddc3b49747b2ff98d24Affected
  • ffd980f976e7fd666c2e61bf8ab35107efd11828 to before df47f07cdc801a6afe05a486b5a343c3e532a93cAffected
  • ffd980f976e7fd666c2e61bf8ab35107efd11828 to before e6c24ba95fc3f1b5e1dcd28b1c6e59ef61a9daa5Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.25Affected
  • before 2.6.25Not affected
  • 5.10.265 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.216 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.183 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.148 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.101 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.42 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.5 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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