This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled usbip: fix vhci_hcd to check for stream socket to the 4.4-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: usbip-fix-vhci_hcd-to-check-for-stream-socket.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From f55a0571690c4aae03180e001522538c0927432f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2021 20:53:27 -0700 Subject: usbip: fix vhci_hcd to check for stream socket From: Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit f55a0571690c4aae03180e001522538c0927432f upstream. Fix attach_store() to validate the passed in file descriptor is a stream socket. If the file descriptor passed was a SOCK_DGRAM socket, sock_recvmsg() can't detect end of stream. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Suggested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/52712aa308915bda02cece1589e04ee8b401d1f3.1615171203.git.skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_sysfs.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_sysfs.c @@ -202,8 +202,16 @@ static ssize_t store_attach(struct devic /* Extract socket from fd. */ socket = sockfd_lookup(sockfd, &err); - if (!socket) + if (!socket) { + dev_err(dev, "failed to lookup sock"); return -EINVAL; + } + if (socket->type != SOCK_STREAM) { + dev_err(dev, "Expecting SOCK_STREAM - found %d", + socket->type); + sockfd_put(socket); + return -EINVAL; + } /* now need lock until setting vdev status as used */ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/usbip-fix-vhci_hcd-to-check-for-stream-socket.patch queue-4.4/usbip-fix-stub_dev-to-check-for-stream-socket.patch queue-4.4/usbip-fix-stub_dev-usbip_sockfd_store-races-leading-to-gpf.patch