This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ax88172a: fix ax88172a_unbind() failures
to the 5.7-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ax88172a-fix-ax88172a_unbind-failures.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.7 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 8dd77215d3d16a4b6aa572be6f5493e7c8de55c4
Author: George Kennedy <george.kennedy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jul 15 09:59:31 2020 -0400
ax88172a: fix ax88172a_unbind() failures
[ Upstream commit c28d9a285668c799eeae2f7f93e929a6028a4d6d ]
If ax88172a_unbind() fails, make sure that the return code is
less than zero so that cleanup is done properly and avoid UAF.
Fixes: a9a51bd727d1 ("ax88172a: fix information leak on short answers")
Signed-off-by: George Kennedy <george.kennedy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: syzbot+4cd84f527bf4a10fc9c1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/ax88172a.c b/drivers/net/usb/ax88172a.c
index 4e514f5d7c6c7..fd3a04d98dc14 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/ax88172a.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/ax88172a.c
@@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ static int ax88172a_bind(struct usbnet *dev, struct usb_interface *intf)
ret = asix_read_cmd(dev, AX_CMD_READ_NODE_ID, 0, 0, ETH_ALEN, buf, 0);
if (ret < ETH_ALEN) {
netdev_err(dev->net, "Failed to read MAC address: %d\n", ret);
+ ret = -EIO;
goto free;
}
memcpy(dev->net->dev_addr, buf, ETH_ALEN);
