This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled comedi: vmk80xx: fix bulk-buffer overflow 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: comedi-vmk80xx-fix-bulk-buffer-overflow.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 78cdfd62bd54af615fba9e3ca1ba35de39d3871d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 13:45:31 +0200 Subject: comedi: vmk80xx: fix bulk-buffer overflow From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 78cdfd62bd54af615fba9e3ca1ba35de39d3871d upstream. The driver is using endpoint-sized buffers but must not assume that the tx and rx buffers are of equal size or a malicious device could overflow the slab-allocated receive buffer when doing bulk transfers. Fixes: 985cafccbf9b ("Staging: Comedi: vmk80xx: Add k8061 support") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 2.6.31 Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211025114532.4599-5-johan@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/vmk80xx.c | 16 +++++++--------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/vmk80xx.c +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/vmk80xx.c @@ -168,22 +168,20 @@ static void vmk80xx_do_bulk_msg(struct c __u8 rx_addr; unsigned int tx_pipe; unsigned int rx_pipe; - size_t size; + size_t tx_size; + size_t rx_size; tx_addr = devpriv->ep_tx->bEndpointAddress; rx_addr = devpriv->ep_rx->bEndpointAddress; tx_pipe = usb_sndbulkpipe(usb, tx_addr); rx_pipe = usb_rcvbulkpipe(usb, rx_addr); - - /* - * The max packet size attributes of the K8061 - * input/output endpoints are identical - */ - size = usb_endpoint_maxp(devpriv->ep_tx); + tx_size = usb_endpoint_maxp(devpriv->ep_tx); + rx_size = usb_endpoint_maxp(devpriv->ep_rx); usb_bulk_msg(usb, tx_pipe, devpriv->usb_tx_buf, - size, NULL, devpriv->ep_tx->bInterval); - usb_bulk_msg(usb, rx_pipe, devpriv->usb_rx_buf, size, NULL, HZ * 10); + tx_size, NULL, devpriv->ep_tx->bInterval); + + usb_bulk_msg(usb, rx_pipe, devpriv->usb_rx_buf, rx_size, NULL, HZ * 10); } static int vmk80xx_read_packet(struct comedi_device *dev) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johan@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/comedi-ni_usb6501-fix-null-deref-in-command-paths.patch queue-4.4/comedi-dt9812-fix-dma-buffers-on-stack.patch queue-4.4/staging-r8712u-fix-control-message-timeout.patch queue-4.4/comedi-vmk80xx-fix-bulk-buffer-overflow.patch queue-4.4/comedi-vmk80xx-fix-transfer-buffer-overflows.patch queue-4.4/comedi-vmk80xx-fix-bulk-and-interrupt-message-timeouts.patch queue-4.4/rsi-fix-control-message-timeout.patch queue-4.4/staging-rtl8192u-fix-control-message-timeouts.patch queue-4.4/net-hso-register-netdev-later-to-avoid-a-race-condition.patch