Re: [PATCH 3/3] usb: clamp bInterval to allowed range

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On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 05:24:18PM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 10:19:28AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 09:56:37AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 1 Jul 2013, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > bInterval must be within the range 1 - 16,
> > > > 
> > > > That's true only for high speed and SuperSpeed.  For low speed and full 
> > > > speed, bInterval is allowed to range from 1 to 255.  See p. 271 in the 
> > > > USB-2 spec.
> > > > 
> > > > > in order to catch drivers passing a too
> > > > > large bInterval (thus zeroing urb->interval),
> > > > > let's clamp() the argument to the allowed
> > > > > range.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxx>
> > > > > ---
> > > > >  include/linux/usb.h | 4 ++++
> > > > >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> > > > > 
> > > > > diff --git a/include/linux/usb.h b/include/linux/usb.h
> > > > > index a232b7e..0883e3a 100644
> > > > > --- a/include/linux/usb.h
> > > > > +++ b/include/linux/usb.h
> > > > > @@ -1545,6 +1545,10 @@ static inline void usb_fill_int_urb(struct urb *urb,
> > > > >  	urb->transfer_buffer_length = buffer_length;
> > > > >  	urb->complete = complete_fn;
> > > > >  	urb->context = context;
> > > > > +
> > > > > +	/* make sure interval is within allowed range */
> > > > > +	interval = clamp(interval, 1, 16);
> > > > 
> > > > These lines should go within the first branch of the "if" statement 
> > > > below.
> > > 
> > > could you look at the newer version I sent as a reply to this and tell
> > > me what you think of it ?
> > 
> > I shouldn't have replied so quickly to the original post -- it was a
> > violation of my normal policy to read through all the accumulated inbox
> > messages before replying to any of them.  :-(
> > 
> > Yeah, the updated version is better.  I don't think we need to test the
> > full/low-speed case, though.  There already are checks in
> > usb_submit_urb() to handle unreasonable values of urb->interval.  The
> > only reason for checking in the high/SuperSpeed case is that the stored
> > value is computed from the input value, and you don't want the 
> > computation to overflow.
> 
> right, which is what happens on two drivers already (see patches 1 and
> 2).

Based on the age of those drivers, I would think that those drivers are
correct, right?  Those were probably only tested on full speed devices
(like the ATM one.)

thanks,

greg k-h
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