From: Vladis Dronov <vdronov@redhat.com>
To: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>,
linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Vladis Dronov <vdronov@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] [media] usbvision: revert commit 588afcc1
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 17:14:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1454256892-7832-1-git-send-email-vdronov@redhat.com> (raw)
Signed-off-by: Vladis Dronov <vdronov@redhat.com>
---
I believe, commit 588afcc1 should be reverted, concerns being:
* "!dev->actconfig->interface[ifnum]" won't catch a case where
the value is not NULL but some garbage. This way the system may
crash later with GPF.
* "(ifnum >= USB_MAXINTERFACES)" does not cover all the error
conditions. "ifnum" should be compared to "dev->actconfig->
desc.bNumInterfaces", i.e. compared to the number of "struct
usb_interface" kzalloc()-ed, not to USB_MAXINTERFACES.
* There is a "struct usb_device" leak in this error path,
as there is usb_get_dev(), but no usb_put_dev() on this path.
* There is a bug of the same type several lines below with number
of endpoints. The code is accessing hard-coded second endpoint
("interface->endpoint[1].desc") which may not exist. It would be
great to handle this in the same patch too.
* All the concerns above are resolved by already-accepted patch
fa52bd50 "[media] usbvision: fix crash on detecting device with
invalid configuration"
* Mailing list message:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-media/msg94832.html
drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-video.c | 7 -------
1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-video.c b/drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-video.c
index de9ff3b..6996ab8 100644
--- a/drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-video.c
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-video.c
@@ -1461,13 +1461,6 @@ static int usbvision_probe(struct usb_interface *intf,
printk(KERN_INFO "%s: %s found\n", __func__,
usbvision_device_data[model].model_string);
- /*
- * this is a security check.
- * an exploit using an incorrect bInterfaceNumber is known
- */
- if (ifnum >= USB_MAXINTERFACES || !dev->actconfig->interface[ifnum])
- return -ENODEV;
-
if (usbvision_device_data[model].interface >= 0)
interface = &dev->actconfig->interface[usbvision_device_data[model].interface]->altsetting[0];
else if (ifnum < dev->actconfig->desc.bNumInterfaces)
--
2.4.3
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