Re: [syzbot] WARNING in hid_submit_ctrl/usb_submit_urb

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On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 11:51:31AM +0200, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 1:54 PM Jiri Kosina <jikos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 20 Aug 2021, Alan Stern wrote:
> >
> > > > syzbot has tested the proposed patch and the reproducer did not trigger any issue:
> > >
> > > That's good to know.  Still, I suspect there's a better way of handling
> > > this condition.
> > >
> > > In particular, does it make sense to accept descriptors for input or
> > > feature reports with length zero?  I can't imagine what good such
> > > reports would do.
> >
> > I quickly went through drivers + some hidraw users, and can't spot any use
> > case for it.
> >
> > > On the other hand, I'm not familiar enough with the code to know the
> > > right way to reject these descriptors and reports.  It looks like the
> > > HID subsystem was not designed with this sort of check in mind.
> > >
> > > Benjamin and Jiri, what do you think?  Is it okay to allow descriptors
> > > for zero-length reports and just pretend they have length 1 (as the
> > > patch tested by syzbot did), or should we instead reject them during
> > > probing?
> >
> > I think it's a good band-aid for 5.14 (or 5.14-stable if we don't make
> > it), and if it turns out to break something (which I don't expect), than
> > we can look into rejecting already during probe.
> >
> > Benjamin, is there a way to run this quickly through your HID regression
> > testing machinery?
> >
> 
> I have finally been able to test this patch:
> - the testsuite is still passing (of course, this is not hid-core related)
> - Logitech unify receivers are fine (according to the automated tests)
> - Gaming mice with hidraw calls works (with libratbag in userspace)
> - Wacom Intuos Pro still works (so the usbhid calls to enable the
> tablet mode are still OK)
> 
> ->
> Tested-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Alan, would you mind resending the patch with the various tags with a
> commit description? (unless I missed it...)

Will do.  I'm rather busy today, so it may have to wait until tomorrow.

Alan Stern



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