Re: [PATCH] USB: serial: cypress_m8: fix memory corruption with small endpoint

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, May 22, 2026 at 12:16:21PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> Make sure that the interrupt-out endpoint max packet size is at least
> eight bytes to avoid user-controlled slab corruption or NULL-pointer
> dereference should a malicious device report a smaller size.
> 
> Fixes: 3416eaa1f8f8 ("USB: cypress_m8: Packet format is separate from characteristic size")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org	# 2.6.26
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
> ---
>  drivers/usb/serial/cypress_m8.c | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/cypress_m8.c b/drivers/usb/serial/cypress_m8.c
> index afff1a0f4298..82ba0900b399 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/serial/cypress_m8.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/cypress_m8.c
> @@ -445,6 +445,14 @@ static int cypress_generic_port_probe(struct usb_serial_port *port)
>  		return -ENODEV;
>  	}
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * The buffer must be large enough for the one or two-byte header (and
> +	 * following data) but assume anything smaller than eight bytes is
> +	 * broken.
> +	 */
> +	if (port->interrupt_out_size < 8)
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
>  	priv = kzalloc_obj(struct cypress_private);
>  	if (!priv)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
> -- 
> 2.53.0
> 
> 

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>