From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
To: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Cc: syzbot <syzbot+8ab8bf161038a8768553@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>,
"Jacky . Cao @ sony . com" <Jacky.Cao@sony.com>,
Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>,
Chunfeng Yun <chunfeng.yun@mediatek.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
USB list <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
syzkaller-bugs <syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: divide error in dummy_timer
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 15:17:18 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1910241507450.1318-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAeHK+yu2MYmh86wJ_DxYoUEU-vp9R+jXRVMh_SpsSNFdHVO7g@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 24 Oct 2019, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 7:57 PM Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 24 Oct 2019, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> >
> > > > Is this really the sort of thing we need to catch? It isn't a bug in
> > > > any existing kernel code, as far as I know. Maybe only gadgetfs and
> > > > configfs need to worry about it.
> > >
> > > Hi Alan,
> > >
> > > Do you mean that the gadget driver must ensure that the max packet
> > > size in the endpoint descriptor is not zero? Do HCDs rely on that? I
> > > can add this check into the driver we use for USB fuzzing.
> >
> > Well, if there are any gadget drivers in the kernel which do set an
> > endpoint's maxpacket size to 0, they should be fixed. I'm not aware of
> > any.
> >
> > Of course, gadget drivers in userspace are always suspect. That's why
> > I suggested having gadgetfs and configfs perform this check. Even so
> > it's not really a _security_ risk, because only the superuser is
> > allowed to run a userspace gadget driver. (Although obviously it is
> > better to have a clean failure than to crash the system when a buggy
> > program runs with superuser privileges.)
> >
> > Yes, HCDs do depend on endpoints having reasonable maxpacket values. I
> > suppose the core should check for this. Currently we check for values
> > that are too large or invalid in other ways (like high-speed bulk
> > endpoints with maxpacket != 512), but we don't check for 0.
>
> Oh, I think I've confused the terms here. I meant to ask about UDCs.
> The question is whether it's OK to try and emulate a gadget with
> maxpacket = 0 on a board with a hardware UDC? Or can it cause issues?
> The fact that HCDs must ensure correct maxpacket values of course
> makes sense.
It doesn't make any sense to have an endpoint with maxpacket = 0 --
either real or emulated. The USB spec doesn't prohibit them (probably
an oversight), but such endpoints would be useless since it would not
be possible to transfer any data to/from them.
And as you surmised, it wouldn't be at all surprising for UDC drivers
to crash (much like dummy-hcd does) when faced with an endpoint having
maxpacket = 0. Best to rule out the possibility entirely.
Alan Stern
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-24 19:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-24 13:58 divide error in dummy_timer syzbot
2019-10-24 15:04 ` Alan Stern
2019-10-24 15:22 ` syzbot
2019-10-24 17:05 ` Andrey Konovalov
2019-10-24 17:57 ` Alan Stern
2019-10-24 18:08 ` syzbot
2019-10-24 18:58 ` Alan Stern
2019-10-24 19:16 ` syzbot
2019-10-28 14:52 ` [PATCH] USB: Skip endpoints with 0 maxpacket length Alan Stern
2019-10-28 14:54 ` [PATCH] USB: gadget: Reject endpoints with 0 maxpacket value Alan Stern
2019-10-28 16:08 ` Greg KH
2019-10-29 8:38 ` Felipe Balbi
2019-10-24 18:55 ` divide error in dummy_timer Andrey Konovalov
2019-10-24 19:17 ` Alan Stern [this message]
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