From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] usb: gadget: f_hid: don't call copy_from_user() under get_report_spinlock
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2026 11:28:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2026091905-humbling-swooned-c371@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260919090724.3256109-1-benquike@gmail.com>
On Sat, Sep 19, 2026 at 09:07:23AM +0000, Hui Peng wrote:
> f_hidg_get_report() already copies the incoming struct usb_hidg_report
> from userspace into the freshly allocated 'entry' before acquiring
> hidg->get_report_spinlock.
>
> When a report with the same report_id is already present in
> hidg->report_list, the update path copies from userspace a second time,
> this time directly into ptr->report_data while the spinlock is held with
> interrupts disabled:
>
> spin_lock_irqsave(&hidg->get_report_spinlock, flags);
> ptr = f_hidg_search_for_report(hidg, report_id);
> if (ptr) {
> if (copy_from_user(&ptr->report_data, buffer,
> sizeof(struct usb_hidg_report))) {
>
> copy_from_user() may fault and sleep, so this is a sleeping function
> called from atomic context, reported by CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP as
> "BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context". Userspace can
> reach it at will by issuing GADGET_HID_WRITE_GET_REPORT twice with the
> same report_id on /dev/hidgN.
>
> The second copy is also redundant: the same user buffer has already been
> copied into entry->report_data a few lines above, and report_id was
> derived from that copy. Assign from the already copied data instead,
> which removes the fault from the critical section and makes the update
> atomic with respect to the list lookup.
>
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Signed-off-by: Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>
> ---
> Found by inspection while investigating the use-after-free fixed in
> patch 2/2, and build tested only; I do not have HID gadget hardware,
> but the path is reachable from /dev/hidgN with dummy_hcd.
what commit id does this fix?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-19 10:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-19 9:07 [PATCH 1/2] usb: gadget: f_hid: don't call copy_from_user() under get_report_spinlock Hui Peng
2026-09-19 9:07 ` [PATCH 2/2] usb: gadget: f_hid: fix use-after-free of hidg->func.config after unbind Hui Peng
2026-09-19 10:28 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-09-19 10:28 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2026-09-19 11:00 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] usb: gadget: f_hid: don't call copy_from_user() under get_report_spinlock Hui Peng
2026-09-19 11:00 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] usb: gadget: f_hid: fix use-after-free of hidg->func.config after unbind Hui Peng
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