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authorOliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>2016-03-16 15:26:17 +0300
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>2016-04-11 17:44:05 +0300
commit38114f18d3c6a7e5a82b6fab03542131dcd62500 (patch)
treee5d64642d0b396d3902770129b9ac084d58cb5ba /drivers/usb
parent74fd1380d488617ce8a11dbf4f91ec6f0d605255 (diff)
downloadlinux-38114f18d3c6a7e5a82b6fab03542131dcd62500.tar.xz
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 <ONeukum@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/usb')
-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 bfddeb3bc97e..8053fab9ae69 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/driver.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/driver.c
@@ -463,11 +463,15 @@ 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;