This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled HID: check for NULL field when setting values to the 3.10-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-check-for-null-field-when-setting-values.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From be67b68d52fa28b9b721c47bb42068f0c1214855 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 22:32:01 +0200 Subject: HID: check for NULL field when setting values From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit be67b68d52fa28b9b721c47bb42068f0c1214855 upstream. Defensively check that the field to be worked on is not NULL. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/hid/hid-core.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c @@ -1156,7 +1156,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hid_output_report); int hid_set_field(struct hid_field *field, unsigned offset, __s32 value) { - unsigned size = field->report_size; + unsigned size; + + if (!field) + return -1; + + size = field->report_size; hid_dump_input(field->report->device, field->usage + offset, value); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/hid-sensor-hub-validate-feature-report-details.patch queue-3.10/hid-picolcd_core-validate-output-report-details.patch queue-3.10/hid-validate-hid-report-id-size.patch queue-3.10/hid-pantherlord-validate-output-report-details.patch queue-3.10/crypto-api-fix-race-condition-in-larval-lookup.patch queue-3.10/hid-check-for-null-field-when-setting-values.patch queue-3.10/hid-ntrig-validate-feature-report-details.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html