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From: sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com
To: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: 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 15:29:48 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <df24d0e5-73b1-3300-79a5-3dd7329f8a57@linux.intel.com> (raw)

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()?
>
> 	Regards
> 		Oliver
>
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             reply	other threads:[~2018-03-08 23:29 UTC|newest]

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

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