From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F039A4E3763; Tue, 19 May 2026 12:49:44 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1779194985; cv=none; b=o0GTi8Je7vFrMpnutvF2ErljE5UyyNitpTEY0MwxdxvRKAr3Uu5+XkvV/HSY+2VtBJ+wNAaLzn4Iv0uh3mYjrpfDNKI31m1DwAGoQHn9WQ2qXQ9oNPkYtpN0FR9aMqgegPinhILaGjI2KU24fnMIIZIRMjwVj3grIKtNncX4odg= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1779194985; c=relaxed/simple; bh=eqjqNP7S444fzbeIgre3bD11ZF6b0frGn5B3goLhHXU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=QB/lwo3ofH9Gisv6LL49F26i1lmekJngBSiBXdVFjC29O0t/1SIqVUdi+TryLJfF6xUzRkX+tcyjKtcuRBUtxKXUlzva4u12VFj9Pubh8aOGwmW6GyRDeTJzxTm3zFtmqqIqZt8f9RRVcIGVyGxXChfjop1w2m+yb14N0S/aUk8= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=Mi5Rgg1O; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="Mi5Rgg1O" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E0E11C2BCB3; Tue, 19 May 2026 12:49:43 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1779194984; bh=eqjqNP7S444fzbeIgre3bD11ZF6b0frGn5B3goLhHXU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=Mi5Rgg1O6tyHGtgKJSao86QbGuasY0Fr9q+IHguBHFxT3sb5D4kkcPtO/07hqYuXk lrQpC75eUElj4HcidvDYQBVz0FhEM9qiHnuR0Qr2s6oTjLHFYOOCI4GWiGbN/8hepR TClJsBXZRyyDUuBReYn8wP+jDuCvxFUbW4ljbf8Q= Date: Tue, 19 May 2026 14:48:57 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Benjamin Tissoires Cc: Lee Jones , Jiri Kosina , Filipe =?iso-8859-1?Q?La=EDns?= , Bastien Nocera , Ping Cheng , Jason Gerecke , Viresh Kumar , Johan Hovold , Alex Elder , Icenowy Zheng , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greybus-dev@lists.linaro.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] HID: Proper fix for OOM in hid-core Message-ID: <2026051937-hefty-registry-37b2@gregkh> References: <20260504-wip-fix-core-v3-0-ce1f11f4968f@kernel.org> <20260506091606.GB305027@google.com> <20260512101723.GU305027@google.com> <20260519111723.GU305027@google.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-input@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Tue, May 19, 2026 at 02:46:13PM +0200, Benjamin Tissoires wrote: > On May 19 2026, Lee Jones wrote: > > On Tue, 12 May 2026, Lee Jones wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 06 May 2026, Lee Jones wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, 04 May 2026, Benjamin Tissoires wrote: > > > > > > > > > Commit 0a3fe972a7cb ("HID: core: Mitigate potential OOB by removing > > > > > bogus memset()") enforced the provided data to be at least the size of > > > > > the declared buffer in the report descriptor to prevent a buffer > > > > > overflow. > > > > > > > > > > We only had corner cases of malicious devices exposing the OOM because > > > > > in most cases, the buffer provided by the transport layer needs to be > > > > > allocated at probe time and is large enough to handle all the possible > > > > > reports. > > > > > > > > > > However, the patch from above, which enforces the spec a little bit more > > > > > introduced both regressions for devices not following the spec (not > > > > > necesserally malicious), but also a stream of errors for those devices. > > > > > > > > > > Let's revert to the old behavior by giving more information to HID core > > > > > to be able to decide whether it can or not memset the rest of the buffer > > > > > to 0 and continue the processing. > > > > > > > > > > Note that the first commit makes an API change, but the callers are > > > > > relatively limited, so it should be fine on its own. The second patch > > > > > can't really make the same kind of API change because we have too many > > > > > callers in various subsystems. We can switch them one by one to the safe > > > > > approach when needed. > > > > > > > > > > The last 2 patches are small cleanups I initially put together with the > > > > > 2 first patches, but they can be applied on their own and don't need to > > > > > be pulled in stable like the first 2. > > > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > Benjamin > > > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires > > > > > --- > > > > > Changes in v3: > > > > > - fixed ghib -> ghid in greybus > > > > > - fixed i386 size_t debug size reported by kernel-bot > > > > > - Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260416-wip-fix-core-v2-0-be92570e5627@kernel.org > > > > > > > > > > Changes in v2: > > > > > - added a small blurb explaining the difference between the safe and the > > > > > non safe version of hid_safe_input_report > > > > > - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260415-wip-fix-core-v1-0-ed3c4c823175@kernel.org > > > > > > > > > > --- > > > > > Benjamin Tissoires (4): > > > > > HID: pass the buffer size to hid_report_raw_event > > > > > HID: core: introduce hid_safe_input_report() > > > > > HID: multitouch: use __free(kfree) to clean up temporary buffers > > > > > HID: wacom: use __free(kfree) to clean up temporary buffers > > > > > > > > > > drivers/hid/bpf/hid_bpf_dispatch.c | 6 ++-- > > > > > drivers/hid/hid-core.c | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- > > > > > drivers/hid/hid-gfrm.c | 4 +-- > > > > > drivers/hid/hid-logitech-hidpp.c | 2 +- > > > > > drivers/hid/hid-multitouch.c | 18 ++++------ > > > > > drivers/hid/hid-primax.c | 2 +- > > > > > drivers/hid/hid-vivaldi-common.c | 2 +- > > > > > drivers/hid/i2c-hid/i2c-hid-core.c | 7 ++-- > > > > > drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c | 11 ++++--- > > > > > drivers/hid/wacom_sys.c | 46 +++++++++----------------- > > > > > drivers/staging/greybus/hid.c | 2 +- > > > > > include/linux/hid.h | 6 ++-- > > > > > include/linux/hid_bpf.h | 14 +++++--- > > > > > 13 files changed, 109 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-) > > > > > > > > What's the plan for this set Benjamin? -rcs or -next? > > > > > > Are there any updates on this set please? > > > > > > FYI, this set is still important to us. > > > > > > Ideally, if all is well, it would go into the -rcs for v7.1. > > > > I'm still actively tracking these. > > > > It looks like Mark has been reverting them from -next and I'm getting > > complaints from the Stable folks that they are causing build errors. > > > > drivers/hid/hid-core.c: In function 'hid_safe_input_report': > > drivers/hid/hid-core.c:2195:16: error: too many arguments to function '__hid_input_report' > > 2195 | return __hid_input_report(hid, type, data, bufsize, size, interrupt, 0, > > > > Are you folks still working on this set? > > Well, everything is in Linus' tree: > > not yet in a released rc (taken yesterday by Linus directly): > > 4d3a2a466b8d HID: core: Fix size_t specifier in hid_report_raw_event() > > Already in 7.1-rc4: > > 206342541fc8 HID: core: introduce hid_safe_input_report() > 2c85c61d1332 HID: pass the buffer size to hid_report_raw_event > > Not sure why the patches don't apply to stable, but from an upstream > subsystem point of view, everything is in order. We dropped them from stable because of the build breakage :( thanks, greg k-h