Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Ben Hutchings <> | Date | Wed, 27 Apr 2016 01:02:21 +0200 | Subject | [PATCH 3.16 155/217] USB: mct_u232: add sanity checking in probe |
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3.16.35-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
commit 4e9a0b05257f29cf4b75f3209243ed71614d062e upstream.
An attack using the lack of sanity checking in probe is known. This patch checks for the existence of a second port.
CVE-2016-3136
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <ONeukum@suse.com> [johan: add error message ] Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> --- drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c @@ -376,14 +376,21 @@ static void mct_u232_msr_to_state(struct static int mct_u232_port_probe(struct usb_serial_port *port) { + struct usb_serial *serial = port->serial; struct mct_u232_private *priv; + /* check first to simplify error handling */ + if (!serial->port[1] || !serial->port[1]->interrupt_in_urb) { + dev_err(&port->dev, "expected endpoint missing\n"); + return -ENODEV; + } + priv = kzalloc(sizeof(*priv), GFP_KERNEL); if (!priv) return -ENOMEM; /* Use second interrupt-in endpoint for reading. */ - priv->read_urb = port->serial->port[1]->interrupt_in_urb; + priv->read_urb = serial->port[1]->interrupt_in_urb; priv->read_urb->context = port; spin_lock_init(&priv->lock);
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