On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 05:41:55PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> If we get an invalid device configuration from a palm 3 type device, we
> might incorrectly parse things, and we have the potential to crash in
> "interesting" ways.
>
> Fix this up by verifying the size of the configuration passed to us by
> the device, and only if it is correct, will we handle it.
>
> Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
>
> ---
>
> Here is my long-forgotten patch for the visor driver to resolve an issue
> that Andrey found back in September of 2017. Sorry for the long delay.
>
> Johan, I incorporated your review comments of my original one-off patch
> here as well.
Thanks for the update. I've applied this for 4.17-rc now after adding a
stable tag and a comment about this one also fixing a slab info leak
(through that dev_info in the port loop below).
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/visor.c b/drivers/usb/serial/visor.c
> index f5373ed2cd45..8ddbecc25d89 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/serial/visor.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/visor.c
> @@ -335,47 +335,48 @@ static int palm_os_3_probe(struct usb_serial *serial,
> goto exit;
> }
>
> - if (retval == sizeof(*connection_info)) {
> - connection_info = (struct visor_connection_info *)
> - transfer_buffer;
> -
> - num_ports = le16_to_cpu(connection_info->num_ports);
> - for (i = 0; i < num_ports; ++i) {
> - switch (
> - connection_info->connections[i].port_function_id) {
> - case VISOR_FUNCTION_GENERIC:
> - string = "Generic";
> - break;
> - case VISOR_FUNCTION_DEBUGGER:
> - string = "Debugger";
> - break;
> - case VISOR_FUNCTION_HOTSYNC:
> - string = "HotSync";
> - break;
> - case VISOR_FUNCTION_CONSOLE:
> - string = "Console";
> - break;
> - case VISOR_FUNCTION_REMOTE_FILE_SYS:
> - string = "Remote File System";
> - break;
> - default:
> - string = "unknown";
> - break;
> - }
> - dev_info(dev, "%s: port %d, is for %s use\n",
> - serial->type->description,
> - connection_info->connections[i].port, string);
> - }
Johan
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