Re: [PATCH] usb: core: Prevent null pointer dereference in update_port_device_state

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 06:35:38PM +0530, Udipto Goswami wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On 1/4/2024 4:14 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 03:56:16PM +0530, Udipto Goswami wrote:
> > > Currently,the function update_port_device_state gets the usb_hub from
> > > udev->parent by calling usb_hub_to_struct_hub.
> > > However, in case the actconfig or the maxchild is 0, the usb_hub would
> > > be NULL and upon further accessing to get port_dev would result in null
> > > pointer dereference.
> > 
> > Is this true for any real (or fake) hardware?
> 
> We saw this in our QCOM hardwares where lvstest.c was calling
> get_dev_desc_store:
> 
> 	usb_set_device_state+0x128/0x17c
> 	create_lvs_device+0x60/0xf8 [lvstest]
> 	get_dev_desc_store+0x94/0x18c [lvstest]
> 	dev_attr_store+0x30/0x48
> 
> I think the part of the test procedure is to first unbind the hub driver
> which calls hub_disconnect setting the maxchild = 0.

Are you sure lvstest is correct here?

thanks,

greg k-h