From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx>
An attack using the lack of sanity checking in probe is known. This
patch checks for the existence of a second port.
CVE-2016-3136
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <ONeukum@xxxxxxxx>
CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[johan: add error message ]
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c b/drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c
index 4446b8d70ac2..885655315de1 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c
@@ -376,14 +376,21 @@ static void mct_u232_msr_to_state(struct usb_serial_port *port,
static int mct_u232_port_probe(struct usb_serial_port *port)
{
+ struct usb_serial *serial = port->serial;
struct mct_u232_private *priv;
+ /* check first to simplify error handling */
+ if (!serial->port[1] || !serial->port[1]->interrupt_in_urb) {
+ dev_err(&port->dev, "expected endpoint missing\n");
+ return -ENODEV;
+ }
+
priv = kzalloc(sizeof(*priv), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!priv)
return -ENOMEM;
/* Use second interrupt-in endpoint for reading. */
- priv->read_urb = port->serial->port[1]->interrupt_in_urb;
+ priv->read_urb = serial->port[1]->interrupt_in_urb;
priv->read_urb->context = port;
spin_lock_init(&priv->lock);
--
2.7.3
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