From: sashiko-bot@kernel.org
To: "YuanZhe Liu" <25031212351@stu.xidian.edu.cn>
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: usbtest: prevent divide by zero in simple_io() with zero length
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2026 07:38:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sashiko-outbox-173944@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261016072750.34256-1-25031212351@stu.xidian.edu.cn>
> A divide error oops was observed in simple_io():
>
> usbtest 1-1:1.0: TEST 3: write/1 0..0 bytes 16307 times
> Oops: divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN
> RIP: 0010:simple_io+0x2c4/0x540 drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.c:497
>
> The variable-length tests (test 3 and test 4) compute the next URB
> size with "len %= max", where max is the original
> urb->transfer_buffer_length. However, when a zero-length transfer is
> requested (param->length == 0), simple_alloc_urb() still returns a valid
> URB with transfer_buffer_length set to 0. On the first vary update,
> "len %= max" divides by zero and the kernel oopses.
>
> Commit 564e69893c63 ("USB: usbtest: prevent a divide by zero bug") added
> the equivalent zero check to alloc_sglist(), which covers the
> scatterlist tests (test 7/8), but the single-URB variable-length path in
> simple_io() was left unprotected.
>
> Fix this by returning -EINVAL early from simple_io() when vary is
> requested but max is zero, so the divide by zero never occurs.
> Zero-length transfers without vary remain valid for the other callers of
> simple_io().
>
> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Co-developed-by: Bin Yu <byu@xidian.edu.cn>
> Signed-off-by: Bin Yu <byu@xidian.edu.cn>
> Co-developed-by: Cheng Wen <wencheng@xidian.edu.cn>
> Signed-off-by: Cheng Wen <wencheng@xidian.edu.cn>
> Signed-off-by: YuanZhe Liu <25031212351@stu.xidian.edu.cn>
Sashiko has reviewed this patch and found no issues. It looks great!
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2026-10-16 7:27 [PATCH] usb: usbtest: prevent divide by zero in simple_io() with zero length YuanZhe Liu
2026-10-16 7:38 ` sashiko-bot [this message]
2026-10-16 14:49 ` Alan Stern
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