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From: Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@linux.intel.com>
To: chunfeng yun <chunfeng.yun@mediatek.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: core: buffer: avoid NULL pointer dereferrence
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 11:24:22 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y48ko8nd.fsf@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1460358968.10419.26.camel@mhfsdcap03>

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Hi,

chunfeng yun <chunfeng.yun@mediatek.com> writes:
>> > On Fri, 2016-04-08 at 07:07 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> >> On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 05:08:03PM +0800, Chunfeng Yun wrote:
>> >> > NULL pointer dereferrence will happen when class driver
>> >> > wants to allocate zero length buffer and pool_max[0]
>> >> > can't be used, so skip reserved pool in this case.
>> >> 
>> >> Why would a driver want to allocate a 0 length buffer?  What driver does
>> >> this?
>> > It's misc/usbtest.c
>> 
>> that'll do what you ask it to do with the userspace tool testusb. Are
>> you trying to pass a size of 0 ?
>> 
> No, I just ran "testusb -t10" which called test_ctrl_queue().
> In this function, sub-case 8 passed a parameter @len as 0 to
> simple_alloc_urb(), and then it tried to allocate a 0-length buffer.

odd, I have never seen this problem running testusb with the same
arguments.

-- 
balbi

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-11  8:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-08  9:08 [PATCH] usb: core: buffer: avoid NULL pointer dereferrence Chunfeng Yun
2016-04-08 14:07 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-04-08 15:21   ` Alan Stern
2016-04-26 23:11     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-04-27  1:32       ` chunfeng yun
2016-04-11  3:01   ` chunfeng yun
2016-04-11  5:07     ` Felipe Balbi
2016-04-11  7:16       ` chunfeng yun
2016-04-11  8:24         ` Felipe Balbi [this message]
2016-04-11 14:44         ` Alan Stern

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