From 8ba68464e4787b6a7ec938826e16124df20fd23d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oliver Hartkopp Date: Tue, 26 May 2026 21:33:19 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] bonding: refuse to enslave CAN devices 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 Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260526-bonding-candev-v1-1-ba1df400918a@hartkopp.net Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- 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 af82a3df2c5d..82e779f7916b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c @@ -1890,6 +1890,12 @@ 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,