[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "USB: digi_acceleport: do sanity checking for the number of ports" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Mon Apr 11 22:34:08 UTC 2016


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

    USB: digi_acceleport: do sanity checking for the number of ports

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt8.

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

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From d459fca23d9550bcf293707136ed03f315874d90 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum at suse.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 12:04:26 -0400
Subject: USB: digi_acceleport: do sanity checking for the number of ports

commit 5a07975ad0a36708c6b0a5b9fea1ff811d0b0c1f upstream.

The driver can be crashed with devices that expose crafted descriptors
with too few endpoints.

See: http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Mar/61

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <ONeukum at suse.com>
[johan: fix OOB endpoint check and add error messages ]
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/usb/serial/digi_acceleport.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/digi_acceleport.c b/drivers/usb/serial/digi_acceleport.c
index 12b0e67..3df7b7e 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/digi_acceleport.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/digi_acceleport.c
@@ -1251,8 +1251,27 @@ static int digi_port_init(struct usb_serial_port *port, unsigned port_num)

 static int digi_startup(struct usb_serial *serial)
 {
+	struct device *dev = &serial->interface->dev;
 	struct digi_serial *serial_priv;
 	int ret;
+	int i;
+
+	/* check whether the device has the expected number of endpoints */
+	if (serial->num_port_pointers < serial->type->num_ports + 1) {
+		dev_err(dev, "OOB endpoints missing\n");
+		return -ENODEV;
+	}
+
+	for (i = 0; i < serial->type->num_ports + 1 ; i++) {
+		if (!serial->port[i]->read_urb) {
+			dev_err(dev, "bulk-in endpoint missing\n");
+			return -ENODEV;
+		}
+		if (!serial->port[i]->write_urb) {
+			dev_err(dev, "bulk-out endpoint missing\n");
+			return -ENODEV;
+		}
+	}

 	serial_priv = kzalloc(sizeof(*serial_priv), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!serial_priv)
--
2.7.4





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