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@xxxxxxxx>
CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
drivers/usb/core/driver.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/driver.c b/drivers/usb/core/driver.c
index 56593a9..2057d91 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/driver.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/driver.c
@@ -502,11 +502,15 @@ 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;
--
2.1.4
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