[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "usb: xhci: Bugfix for NULL pointer deference in xhci_endpoint_init() function" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Wed Sep 2 00:55:22 UTC 2015


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    usb: xhci: Bugfix for NULL pointer deference in xhci_endpoint_init() function

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt26.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From d3b70c920047e20394e43fa9697e65a75ae61775 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: AMAN DEEP <aman.deep at samsung.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 17:20:27 +0300
Subject: usb: xhci: Bugfix for NULL pointer deference in xhci_endpoint_init()
 function

commit 3496810663922617d4b706ef2780c279252ddd6a upstream.

virt_dev->num_cached_rings counts on freed ring and is not updated
correctly. In xhci_free_or_cache_endpoint_ring() function, the free ring
is added into cache and then num_rings_cache is incremented as below:
		virt_dev->ring_cache[rings_cached] =
			virt_dev->eps[ep_index].ring;
		virt_dev->num_rings_cached++;
here, free ring pointer is added to a current index and then
index is incremented.
So current index always points to empty location in the ring cache.
For getting available free ring, current index should be decremented
first and then corresponding ring buffer value should be taken from ring
cache.

But In function xhci_endpoint_init(), the num_rings_cached index is
accessed before decrement.
		virt_dev->eps[ep_index].new_ring =
			virt_dev->ring_cache[virt_dev->num_rings_cached];
		virt_dev->ring_cache[virt_dev->num_rings_cached] = NULL;
		virt_dev->num_rings_cached--;
This is bug in manipulating the index of ring cache.
And it should be as below:
		virt_dev->num_rings_cached--;
		virt_dev->eps[ep_index].new_ring =
			virt_dev->ring_cache[virt_dev->num_rings_cached];
		virt_dev->ring_cache[virt_dev->num_rings_cached] = NULL;

Signed-off-by: Aman Deep <aman.deep at samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman at linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c b/drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c
index 06d0d1e..146923a 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c
@@ -1331,10 +1331,10 @@ int xhci_endpoint_init(struct xhci_hcd *xhci,
 		/* Attempt to use the ring cache */
 		if (virt_dev->num_rings_cached == 0)
 			return -ENOMEM;
+		virt_dev->num_rings_cached--;
 		virt_dev->eps[ep_index].new_ring =
 			virt_dev->ring_cache[virt_dev->num_rings_cached];
 		virt_dev->ring_cache[virt_dev->num_rings_cached] = NULL;
-		virt_dev->num_rings_cached--;
 		xhci_reinit_cached_ring(xhci, virt_dev->eps[ep_index].new_ring,
 					1, type);
 	}
--
1.9.1





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