Re: [PATCH] media: usb: siano: Fix general protection fault in smsusb

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On Fri, 24 May 2019, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:

> Em Tue, 7 May 2019 12:39:47 -0400 (EDT)
> Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:
> 
> > The syzkaller USB fuzzer found a general-protection-fault bug in the
> > smsusb part of the Siano DVB driver.  The fault occurs during probe
> > because the driver assumes without checking that the device has both
> > IN and OUT endpoints and the IN endpoint is ep1.
> > 
> > By slightly rearranging the driver's initialization code, we can make
> > the appropriate checks early on and thus avoid the problem.  If the
> > expected endpoints aren't present, the new code safely returns -ENODEV
> > from the probe routine.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+53f029db71c19a47325a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > CC: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Patch looks correct, and I'm applying it. It exposes another potential
> problem though: what happens if sizeof(desc.wMaxPacketSize) < sizeof(struct sms_msg_hdr)?
> 
> I'm enclosing a followup patch that should solve this situation
> (and clean up a sparse warning).
> 
> Thanks,
> Mauro

Your points are well taken.

However, Greg KH has already taken the original patch and a fix for the 
sparse warning into his tree.  I guess the two of you should figure out 
how best to straighten this out.

Alan Stern




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