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Port USB report queue to Rust

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Niklas Dusenlund

78/100 · Adequate
Port USB report queue to Rust

Introduce a dedicated bitbox-usb-report-queue crate and expose
an opaque C FFI for allocating, clearing, pushing, peeking and
pulling 64-byte USB reports.

Wire usb_processing, usb_frame, usb_packet and u2f_packet to
use RustUsbReportQueue handles instead of the legacy C queue,
and initialize separate HWW and U2F queues from Rust, the
bootloader, simulators and HID test fakes.

Remove src/queue.c/h and the old bitbox02 queue wrapper, and
update the simulator and test code to drain and free the new
queues.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit rewrites the firmware's USB report queue from C to Rust. It is a large refactoring that replaces a hand-written C ring buffer with a Rust VecDeque wrapped in a C-compatible FFI. The change touches the core USB communication path used by both the main hardware wallet (HWW) and U2F interfaces. There is no explicit security bug fixed or introduced in the diff, but any mistake in the boundary between C and Rust could affect how the device receives and sends USB messages.

Recommended action

Treat this as a high-risk refactoring worth focused review and regression testing. Verify that the new Rust queue preserves the exact concurrency, capacity, and error-handling semantics of the old C queue, especially under interrupt-driven USB traffic. Run the existing U2F/HWW USB protocol tests, fuzz the FFI boundary with null and double-free scenarios, and confirm that all call sites free queues exactly once. Consider adding a static analysis rule to catch mismatched init/free or use-after-free across the C/Rust boundary.

Security signals we found

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Large refactoring of security-critical USB I/O path

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New C/Rust FFI boundary for queue allocation and access

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Manual memory management via Box::into_raw / Box::from_raw

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Removal of C critical-section wrappers around queue operations

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Capacity preserved but implementation changed from ring buffer to VecDeque

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No explicit vulnerability or CVE mentioned in commit message

Risk score

Why this scored 34/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 5/30
Exploitability 5/25
Stealth signal 5/15
Affected reach 10/15
Confidence 6/10
Evidence quality 3/5
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