This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
usb: gadget: configfs: don't NUL-terminate (sub)compatible ids
to the 3.19-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:
usb-gadget-configfs-don-t-nul-terminate-sub-compatible-ids.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From a0456399fb07155637a2b597b91cc1c63bc25141 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <andrzej.p@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 12:12:53 +0100
Subject: usb: gadget: configfs: don't NUL-terminate (sub)compatible ids
From: Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <andrzej.p@xxxxxxxxxxx>
commit a0456399fb07155637a2b597b91cc1c63bc25141 upstream.
The "Extended Compat ID OS Feature Descriptor Specification" does not
require the (sub)compatible ids to be NUL-terminated, because they
are placed in a fixed-size buffer and only unused parts of it should
contain NULs. If the buffer is fully utilized, there is no place for NULs.
Consequently, the code which uses desc->ext_compat_id never expects the
data contained to be NUL terminated.
If the compatible id is stored after sub-compatible id, and the compatible
id is full length (8 bytes), the (useless) NUL terminator overwrites the
first byte of the sub-compatible id.
If the sub-compatible id is full length (8 bytes), the (useless) NUL
terminator ends up out of the buffer. The situation can happen in the RNDIS
function, where the buffer is a part of struct f_rndis_opts. The next
member of struct f_rndis_opts is a mutex, so its first byte gets
overwritten. The said byte is a part of a mutex'es member which contains
the information on whether the muext is locked or not. This can lead to a
deadlock, because, in a configfs-composed gadget when a function is linked
into a configuration with config_usb_cfg_link(), usb_get_function()
is called, which then calls rndis_alloc(), which tries locking the same
mutex and (wrongly) finds it already locked.
This patch eliminates NUL terminating of the (sub)compatible id.
Fixes: da4243145fb1: "usb: gadget: configfs: OS Extended Compatibility descriptors support"
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <andrzej.p@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c
@@ -1161,7 +1161,6 @@ static ssize_t interf_grp_compatible_id_
if (desc->opts_mutex)
mutex_lock(desc->opts_mutex);
memcpy(desc->ext_compat_id, page, l);
- desc->ext_compat_id[l] = '\0';
if (desc->opts_mutex)
mutex_unlock(desc->opts_mutex);
@@ -1192,7 +1191,6 @@ static ssize_t interf_grp_sub_compatible
if (desc->opts_mutex)
mutex_lock(desc->opts_mutex);
memcpy(desc->ext_compat_id + 8, page, l);
- desc->ext_compat_id[l + 8] = '\0';
if (desc->opts_mutex)
mutex_unlock(desc->opts_mutex);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from andrzej.p@xxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.19/usb-gadget-configfs-don-t-nul-terminate-sub-compatible-ids.patch
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