From: Oliver Neukum Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 12:26:17 +0000 (+0100) Subject: USB: usb_driver_claim_interface: add sanity checking X-Git-Tag: v3.2.80~69 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=79a575e829ba789c462c103c54fd9554f60079db;p=pandora-kernel.git USB: usb_driver_claim_interface: add sanity checking commit 0b818e3956fc1ad976bee791eadcbb3b5fec5bfd upstream. 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/driver.c b/drivers/usb/core/driver.c index c105ba32ff02..c5957142d26b 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/core/driver.c +++ b/drivers/usb/core/driver.c @@ -428,9 +428,13 @@ 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; int retval = 0; + if (!iface) + return -ENODEV; + + dev = &iface->dev; if (dev->driver) return -EBUSY;