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authorOliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>2016-03-16 13:26:17 +0100
committerSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>2016-04-18 08:51:03 -0400
commitfebfaffe4aa9b0600028f46f50156e3354e34208 (patch)
tree08bfc987a0a1c79ba51285fa337d0053150f9645 /drivers
parent14a710bbf6b4095876ff682b3066ac485480049c (diff)
USB: usb_driver_claim_interface: add sanity checking
[ Upstream commit 0b818e3956fc1ad976bee791eadcbb3b5fec5bfd ] Attacks that trick drivers into passing a NULL pointer to usb_driver_claim_interface() using forged descriptors are known. This thwarts them by sanity checking. Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <ONeukum@suse.com> CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/usb/core/driver.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/driver.c b/drivers/usb/core/driver.c
index 818369afff63..7792c0e2d3b6 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/driver.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/driver.c
@@ -499,11 +499,15 @@ static int usb_unbind_interface(struct device *dev)
int usb_driver_claim_interface(struct usb_driver *driver,
struct usb_interface *iface, void *priv)
{
- struct device *dev = &iface->dev;
+ struct device *dev;
struct usb_device *udev;
int retval = 0;
int lpm_disable_error;
+ if (!iface)
+ return -ENODEV;
+
+ dev = &iface->dev;
if (dev->driver)
return -EBUSY;