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From: sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>,
	johan@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [v1,1/1] USB: serial: Add boundry check for read_urbs array access
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 16:34:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a3cc4530-984e-cb7c-b3cf-38ad8cd7bb81@linux.intel.com> (raw)

On 03/08/2018 03:43 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 03:29:48PM -0800, sathyanarayanan kuppuswamy wrote:
>>
>> On 03/08/2018 12:54 AM, Oliver Neukum wrote:
>>> Am Mittwoch, den 07.03.2018, 13:41 -0800 schrieb sathyanarayanan
>>> kuppuswamy       :
>>>> On 03/07/2018 12:58 PM, Greg KH wrote:
>>>>> So I don't see why your check is needed, what other code path would ever
>>>>> call this function in a way that the bounds check would be needed?
>>>> void usb_serial_generic_read_bulk_callback(struct urb *urb)
>>>>
>>>> 385         for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(port->read_urbs); ++i) {
>>>> 386                 if (urb == port->read_urbs[i])
>>>> 387                         break;
>>>> 388         }
>>>>
>>>> In here, after this for loop is done (without any matching urb), i value
>>>> will be equal to ARRAY_SIZE(port->read_urbs). So there is a possibility
>>>> of usb_serial_generic_submit_read_urb() getting called with this invalid
>>>> index.
>>> If this happens the function was called for a stray URB.
>>> Your check comes to late. We have called set_bit with an invalid index
>>> and other shit.
>>> We definitely do not just want to return an error in that case.
>> In that case do you think we should use some WARN_ON() for invalid index in
>> usb_serial_generic_read_bulk_callback()?
> No, again, how could that ever happen?
>
> Don't add pointless error checking for things that are impossible to
> ever hit :)
Thanks Greg.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
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From: sathyanarayanan kuppuswamy <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>,
	johan@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] USB: serial: Add boundry check for read_urbs array access
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 16:34:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a3cc4530-984e-cb7c-b3cf-38ad8cd7bb81@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180308234306.GA22931@kroah.com>



On 03/08/2018 03:43 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 03:29:48PM -0800, sathyanarayanan kuppuswamy wrote:
>>
>> On 03/08/2018 12:54 AM, Oliver Neukum wrote:
>>> Am Mittwoch, den 07.03.2018, 13:41 -0800 schrieb sathyanarayanan
>>> kuppuswamy       :
>>>> On 03/07/2018 12:58 PM, Greg KH wrote:
>>>>> So I don't see why your check is needed, what other code path would ever
>>>>> call this function in a way that the bounds check would be needed?
>>>> void usb_serial_generic_read_bulk_callback(struct urb *urb)
>>>>
>>>> 385         for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(port->read_urbs); ++i) {
>>>> 386                 if (urb == port->read_urbs[i])
>>>> 387                         break;
>>>> 388         }
>>>>
>>>> In here, after this for loop is done (without any matching urb), i value
>>>> will be equal to ARRAY_SIZE(port->read_urbs). So there is a possibility
>>>> of usb_serial_generic_submit_read_urb() getting called with this invalid
>>>> index.
>>> If this happens the function was called for a stray URB.
>>> Your check comes to late. We have called set_bit with an invalid index
>>> and other shit.
>>> We definitely do not just want to return an error in that case.
>> In that case do you think we should use some WARN_ON() for invalid index in
>> usb_serial_generic_read_bulk_callback()?
> No, again, how could that ever happen?
>
> Don't add pointless error checking for things that are impossible to
> ever hit :)
Thanks Greg.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
> --
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in
> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
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>

-- 
Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
Linux kernel developer

             reply	other threads:[~2018-03-09  0:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-09  0:34 sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy [this message]
2018-03-09  0:34 ` [PATCH v1 1/1] USB: serial: Add boundry check for read_urbs array access sathyanarayanan kuppuswamy
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-03-08 23:43 [v1,1/1] " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-03-08 23:43 ` [PATCH v1 1/1] " Greg KH
2018-03-08 23:29 [v1,1/1] " sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy
2018-03-08 23:29 ` [PATCH v1 1/1] " sathyanarayanan kuppuswamy
2018-03-08 14:01 [v1,1/1] " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-03-08 14:01 ` [PATCH v1 1/1] " Greg KH
2018-03-08  8:54 [v1,1/1] " Oliver Neukum
2018-03-08  8:54 ` [PATCH v1 1/1] " Oliver Neukum
2018-03-07 21:41 [v1,1/1] " sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy
2018-03-07 21:41 ` [PATCH v1 1/1] " sathyanarayanan kuppuswamy
2018-03-07 20:58 [v1,1/1] " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-03-07 20:58 ` [PATCH v1 1/1] " Greg KH
2018-03-07 20:23 [v1,1/1] " sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy
2018-03-07 20:23 ` [PATCH v1 1/1] " sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy

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