From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Kamal Mostafa To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: Oliver Neukum , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Kamal Mostafa Subject: [PATCH 3.13.y-ckt 59/97] USB: usb_driver_claim_interface: add sanity checking Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 16:26:23 -0700 Message-Id: <1459812421-933-60-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> In-Reply-To: <1459812421-933-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> References: <1459812421-933-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.13.11-ckt38 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ---8<------------------------------------------------------------ From: Oliver Neukum commit 0b818e3956fc1ad976bee791eadcbb3b5fec5bfd upstream. Attacks that trick drivers into passing a NULL pointer to usb_driver_claim_interface() using forged descriptors are known. This thwarts them by sanity checking. Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- drivers/usb/core/driver.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/driver.c b/drivers/usb/core/driver.c index f573c1d..bcbceec 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/core/driver.c +++ b/drivers/usb/core/driver.c @@ -463,11 +463,15 @@ static int usb_unbind_interface(struct device *dev) int usb_driver_claim_interface(struct usb_driver *driver, struct usb_interface *iface, void *priv) { - struct device *dev = &iface->dev; + struct device *dev; struct usb_device *udev; int retval = 0; int lpm_disable_error; + if (!iface) + return -ENODEV; + + dev = &iface->dev; if (dev->driver) return -EBUSY; -- 2.7.4