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| author | Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> | 2016-03-31 12:04:24 -0400 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2016-04-12 09:08:41 -0700 |
| commit | 9deac9454b7a5643a09829f4731276cea6697b72 (patch) | |
| tree | be2b1b79394ce2f6674b64818d64141eb0a2b21f /drivers | |
| parent | b6c6426252e2653407811f46c883661955b9f5fa (diff) | |
USB: mct_u232: add sanity checking in probe
commit 4e9a0b05257f29cf4b75f3209243ed71614d062e upstream.
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@suse.com>
[johan: add error message ]
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c b/drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c index fd707d6a10e2..89726f702202 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); |