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authorOliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>2016-03-16 13:26:17 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2016-03-18 09:19:02 -0700
commit0b818e3956fc1ad976bee791eadcbb3b5fec5bfd (patch)
tree87540d681d17237c4a19fcb67e4142243959eeea
parent7222c832254a75dcd67d683df75753d4a4e125bb (diff)
USB: usb_driver_claim_interface: add sanity checking
Attacks that trick drivers into passing a NULL pointer to usb_driver_claim_interface() using forged descriptors are known. This thwarts them by sanity checking. Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <ONeukum@suse.com> CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/usb/core/driver.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/driver.c b/drivers/usb/core/driver.c
index 56593a9a8726..2057d91d8336 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/driver.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/driver.c
@@ -502,11 +502,15 @@ static int usb_unbind_interface(struct device *dev)
int usb_driver_claim_interface(struct usb_driver *driver,
struct usb_interface *iface, void *priv)
{
- struct device *dev = &iface->dev;
+ struct device *dev;
struct usb_device *udev;
int retval = 0;
int lpm_disable_error;
+ if (!iface)
+ return -ENODEV;
+
+ dev = &iface->dev;
if (dev->driver)
return -EBUSY;