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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: cd05acfe ("[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 <socketcan@hartkopp.net> Acked-by:
Jay Vosburgh <jv@jvosburgh.net> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260526-bonding-candev-v1-1-ba1df400918a@hartkopp.net Signed-off-by:
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>