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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-72121"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:52:59.959Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:44:57.290Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72121"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72121.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72121"
title: "can: bcm: add locking when updating filter and timer values"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncan: bcm: add locking when updating filter and timer values\n\nKCSAN detected a simultaneous access to timer values that can be\noverwritten in bcm_rx_setup() when updating timer and filter content\nwhile bcm_rx_handler(), bcm_rx_timeout_handler() or bcm_rx_thr_handler()\nrun concurrently on incoming CAN traffic.\n\nProtect the timer (ival1/ival2/kt_ival1/kt_ival2/kt_lastmsg) and filter\n(nframes/flags/frames/last_frames) updates in bcm_rx_setup() with a new\nper-op bcm_rx_update_lock, taken with the matching scope in the RX\nhandlers. memcpy_from_msg() is staged into a temporary buffer before the\nlock is taken, since it can sleep and must not run under a spinlock.\n\nhrtimer_cancel() is always called without bcm_rx_update_lock held, since\nbcm_rx_timeout_handler()/bcm_rx_thr_handler() take the same lock and a\nrunning callback would otherwise deadlock against the canceller.\n\nAlso close a related race: bcm_rx_setup() cleared the RTR flag in the\nstored reply frame's can_id as a separate, unprotected step after the\nframe content was already installed, so a concurrent bcm_rx_handler()\ncould transmit a stale reply with CAN_RTR_FLAG still set. Fold that\nnormalization into the initial frame preparation instead (on the staged\nbuffer for updates, directly on op-\u003eframes pre-registration for new\nops), so the installed frame is always atomically self-consistent.\n\nbcm_rx_handler()'s RX_RTR_FRAME check now takes a lock-protected\nsnapshot of op-\u003eflags before deciding whether to call bcm_can_tx(),\nbut does not hold the lock across that call.\n\nAlso take a lock-protected snapshot of the currframe in bcm_can_tx()\nto avoid partly overwrites by content updates in bcm_tx_setup().\nFinally check if a TX_RESET_MULTI_IDX/SETTIMER might have reset\nop-\u003ecurrframe between the two locked sections in bcm_can_tx().\n\nOmit calling hrtimer_forward() with zero interval in bcm_rx_thr_handler().\nkt_ival2 may have been concurrently cleared by bcm_rx_setup() before it\ncancels this timer, so check kt_ival2 inside the bcm_rx_update_lock."
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