On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 12:23:56PM -0800,
sathyanarayanan.kuppusw...@linux.intel.com wrote:
> From: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppusw...@linux.intel.com>
>
> In usb_serial_generic_submit_read_urb() function we are accessing the
> port->read_urbs array without any boundry checks. This might lead to
> kernel panic when index value goes above array length.
>
> One posible call path for this issue is,
>
> usb_serial_generic_read_bulk_callback()
> {
> ...
> if (!port->throttled) {
> usb_serial_generic_submit_read_urb(port, i, GFP_ATOMIC);
> ...
> }
How does i ever get to be greater than the array size here in this
function? It directly came from looking in that array in the first
place :)
So I don't see why your check is needed, what other code path would ever
call this function in a way that the bounds check would be needed?
thanks,
greg k-h
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