This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
USB: core: Fix unterminated string returned by usb_string()
to my usb git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git
in the usb-linus branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From c01c348ecdc66085e44912c97368809612231520 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 11:51:38 -0400
Subject: USB: core: Fix unterminated string returned by usb_string()
Some drivers (such as the vub300 MMC driver) expect usb_string() to
return a properly NUL-terminated string, even when an error occurs.
(In fact, vub300's probe routine doesn't bother to check the return
code from usb_string().) When the driver goes on to use an
unterminated string, it leads to kernel errors such as
stack-out-of-bounds, as found by the syzkaller USB fuzzer.
An out-of-range string index argument is not at all unlikely, given
that some devices don't provide string descriptors and therefore list
0 as the value for their string indexes. This patch makes
usb_string() return a properly terminated empty string along with the
-EINVAL error code when an out-of-range index is encountered.
And since a USB string index is a single-byte value, indexes >= 256
are just as invalid as values of 0 or below.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: syzbot+b75b85111c10b8d680f1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
CC: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/core/message.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/message.c b/drivers/usb/core/message.c
index 82239f27c4cc..e844bb7b5676 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/message.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/message.c
@@ -820,9 +820,11 @@ int usb_string(struct usb_device *dev, int index, char *buf, size_t size)
if (dev->state == USB_STATE_SUSPENDED)
return -EHOSTUNREACH;
- if (size <= 0 || !buf || !index)
+ if (size <= 0 || !buf)
return -EINVAL;
buf[0] = 0;
+ if (index <= 0 || index >= 256)
+ return -EINVAL;
tbuf = kmalloc(256, GFP_NOIO);
if (!tbuf)
return -ENOMEM;
--
2.21.0
