UPSTREAM: USB: usb_driver_claim_interface: add sanity checking
authorBadhri Jagan Sridharan <Badhri@google.com>
Tue, 30 Aug 2016 20:35:32 +0000 (13:35 -0700)
committerBadhri Jagan Sridharan <Badhri@google.com>
Tue, 30 Aug 2016 20:41:35 +0000 (13:41 -0700)
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.

BUG: 28242610

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <ONeukum@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Badhri Jagan Sridharan <Badhri@google.com>
Change-Id: Ib43ec5edb156985a9db941785a313f6801df092a

drivers/usb/core/driver.c

index 56593a9a87268cc0f6d8181cb5f8021c252b457b..2057d91d83360ddb614ffaeeb174883c1759f7cf 100644 (file)
@@ -502,11 +502,15 @@ 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;