On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 10:59:14 -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > Won't this cause silent errors? Agree. But there are already such as cases like in: // net/bluetooth/hidp/core.c static void hidp_process_report(..) { .. if (len > HID_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE) len = HID_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE; .. // drivers/hid/hid-core.c int hid_report_raw_event(..) { .. rsize = hid_compute_report_size(report); if (report_enum->numbered && rsize >= HID_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE) rsize = HID_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE - 1; else if (rsize > HID_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE) rsize = HID_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE; .. // drivers/staging/greybus/hid.c static int gb_hid_start(..) { .. if (bufsize > HID_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE) bufsize = HID_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE; .. > How about instead just rejecting any device which includes a report > whose length is too big (along with an line in the system log explaining > what's wrong)? Not everywhere, but there are already such as logs when > HID_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE // drivers/hid/hidraw.c static ssize_t hidraw_send_report(..) { .. if (count > HID_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE) { hid_warn(dev, "pid %d passed too large report\n", task_pid_nr(current)); ret = -EINVAL; goto out; } I've just noticed that hid_compute_report_size() doing the same thing as hid_report_len(). So I will replace it with latter one with length check. So in [PATCH v2] I will do following: 1. replace hid_compute_report_size() with hid_report_len() 2. in hid_report_len() we can hid_warn() if length > HID_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE, and return HID_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE. Or we can return 0 in hid_report_len() to let functions like hid_hw_raw_request(), hid_hw_output_report() to validate invalid report length and return -EINVAL. Though I'll need to add !length missing checks in other places. Please let me know what it's preferred way in 2nd step.