Re: [PATCH v3] USB: serial: quatech2: Fix null-ptr-deref in qt2_process_read_urb()

Johan Hovold
2025-01-14T09:47:32Z

On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 06:00:34PM +0000, Qasim Ijaz wrote:
> This patch addresses a null-ptr-deref in qt2_process_read_urb() due to
> an incorrect bounds check in the following:
>
> if (newport > serial->num_ports) {
> dev_err(&port->dev,
> "%s - port change to invalid port: %i\n",
> __func__, newport);
> break;
> }
>
> The condition doesn't account for the valid range of the serial->port
> buffer, which is from 0 to serial->num_ports - 1. When newport is equal
> to serial->num_ports, the assignment of "port" in the
> following code is out-of-bounds and NULL:
>
> serial_priv->current_port = newport;
> port = serial->port[serial_priv->current_port];
>
> The fix checks if newport is greater than or equal to serial->num_ports
> indicating it is out-of-bounds.
>
> Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+506479ebf12fe435d01a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
> Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=506479ebf12fe435d01a
> Fixes: f7a33e608d9a ("USB: serial: add quatech2 usb to serial driver")
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.5
> Signed-off-by: Qasim Ijaz <qasdev00@gmail.com>
> ---

Thanks for the update. I've applied the patch now after adding Greg's
Reviewed-by tag (for v2).

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Something to keep in mind for the future, but this patch already looks
really good.

Johan