This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled HID: core: prevent out-of-bound readings to the 3.18-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: hid-core-prevent-out-of-bound-readings.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 50220dead1650609206efe91f0cc116132d59b3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 12:34:58 +0100 Subject: HID: core: prevent out-of-bound readings From: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 50220dead1650609206efe91f0cc116132d59b3f upstream. Plugging a Logitech DJ receiver with KASAN activated raises a bunch of out-of-bound readings. The fields are allocated up to MAX_USAGE, meaning that potentially, we do not have enough fields to fit the incoming values. Add checks and silence KASAN. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/hid/hid-core.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c @@ -1213,6 +1213,7 @@ static void hid_input_field(struct hid_d /* Ignore report if ErrorRollOver */ if (!(field->flags & HID_MAIN_ITEM_VARIABLE) && value[n] >= min && value[n] <= max && + value[n] - min < field->maxusage && field->usage[value[n] - min].hid == HID_UP_KEYBOARD + 1) goto exit; } @@ -1225,11 +1226,13 @@ static void hid_input_field(struct hid_d } if (field->value[n] >= min && field->value[n] <= max + && field->value[n] - min < field->maxusage && field->usage[field->value[n] - min].hid && search(value, field->value[n], count)) hid_process_event(hid, field, &field->usage[field->value[n] - min], 0, interrupt); if (value[n] >= min && value[n] <= max + && value[n] - min < field->maxusage && field->usage[value[n] - min].hid && search(field->value, value[n], count)) hid_process_event(hid, field, &field->usage[value[n] - min], 1, interrupt); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/hid-core-prevent-out-of-bound-readings.patch