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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>
Cc: kvalo@codeaurora.org, davem@davemloft.net,
	Mathias Payer <mathias.payer@nebelwelt.net>,
	ath10k@lists.infradead.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix a NULL-ptr-deref bug in ath10k_usb_alloc_urb_from_pipe
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2019 12:13:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190810101323.GB25650@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190804003101.11541-1-benquike@gmail.com>

On Sat, Aug 03, 2019 at 08:31:01PM -0400, Hui Peng wrote:
> The `ar_usb` field of `ath10k_usb_pipe_usb_pipe` objects
> are initialized to point to the containing `ath10k_usb` object
> according to endpoint descriptors read from the device side, as shown
> below in `ath10k_usb_setup_pipe_resources`:
> 
> for (i = 0; i < iface_desc->desc.bNumEndpoints; ++i) {
>         endpoint = &iface_desc->endpoint[i].desc;
> 
>         // get the address from endpoint descriptor
>         pipe_num = ath10k_usb_get_logical_pipe_num(ar_usb,
>                                                 endpoint->bEndpointAddress,
>                                                 &urbcount);
>         ......
>         // select the pipe object
>         pipe = &ar_usb->pipes[pipe_num];
> 
>         // initialize the ar_usb field
>         pipe->ar_usb = ar_usb;
> }
> 
> The driver assumes that the addresses reported in endpoint
> descriptors from device side  to be complete. If a device is
> malicious and does not report complete addresses, it may trigger
> NULL-ptr-deref `ath10k_usb_alloc_urb_from_pipe` and
> `ath10k_usb_free_urb_to_pipe`.
> 
> This patch fixes the bug by preventing potential NULL-ptr-deref.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>
> Reported-by: Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>
> Reported-by: Mathias Payer <mathias.payer@nebelwelt.net>

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-10 10:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-04  0:31 [PATCH 2/2] Fix a NULL-ptr-deref bug in ath10k_usb_alloc_urb_from_pipe Hui Peng
2019-08-10 10:13 ` Greg KH [this message]
2019-08-31 21:31 ` Guenter Roeck
2019-09-01  8:06   ` Kalle Valo
2019-10-18  4:05     ` Guenter Roeck
2019-10-18  7:58       ` Kalle Valo
2019-10-18 13:35         ` Guenter Roeck
2019-09-01 19:45   ` Hui Peng
2019-09-03 14:14 ` Kalle Valo

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