On Wed, 28 Aug 2013, Srinivas Pandruvada wrote:

> > A HID device could send a malicious feature report that would cause the
> > sensor-hub HID driver to read past the end of heap allocation, leaking
> > kernel memory contents to the caller.
> > 
> > CVE-2013-2898
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > ---
> >   drivers/hid/hid-sensor-hub.c |    3 ++-
> >   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-sensor-hub.c b/drivers/hid/hid-sensor-hub.c
> > index ca749810..aa34755 100644
> > --- a/drivers/hid/hid-sensor-hub.c
> > +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-sensor-hub.c
> > @@ -221,7 +221,8 @@ int sensor_hub_get_feature(struct hid_sensor_hub_device
> > *hsdev, u32 report_id,
> >             mutex_lock(&data->mutex);
> >     report = sensor_hub_report(report_id, hsdev->hdev,
> > HID_FEATURE_REPORT);
> > -   if (!report || (field_index >=  report->maxfield)) {
> > +   if (!report || (field_index >=  report->maxfield) ||
> > +       report->field[field_index]->report_count < 1) {
> Is it based on some HID device is sending junk report or just from a code
> review?

My understanding is that this whole Kees' patchset is about potentially 
evil devices doing bad things (on purpose).

> >             ret = -EINVAL;
> >             goto done_proc;
> >     }
> Thanks,
> Srinivas
> 

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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