Re: [PATCH] USB: core: limit access to rawdescriptors which were not allocated

[Alan Stern]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 12:16:59AM +0800, yanfei...@windriver.com wrote:
> From: Yanfei Xu <yanfei...@windriver.com>
> 
> When using systemcall to read the rawdescriptors, make sure we won't
> access to the rawdescriptors never allocated, which are number
> exceed the USB_MAXCONFIG.
> 
> Reported-by: syzbot+256e56ddde8b8957e...@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Signed-off-by: Yanfei Xu <yanfei...@windriver.com>
> ---
>  drivers/usb/core/sysfs.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/sysfs.c b/drivers/usb/core/sysfs.c
> index a2ca38e25e0c..1a7a625e5f55 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/core/sysfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/core/sysfs.c
> @@ -895,7 +895,8 @@ read_descriptors(struct file *filp, struct kobject *kobj,
>        * configurations (config plus subsidiary descriptors).
>        */
>       for (cfgno = -1; cfgno < udev->descriptor.bNumConfigurations &&
> -                     nleft > 0; ++cfgno) {
> +                     nleft > 0 &&
> +                     cfgno < USB_MAXCONFIG; ++cfgno) {
>               if (cfgno < 0) {
>                       src = &udev->descriptor;
>                       srclen = sizeof(struct usb_device_descriptor);

This is not the right way to fix the problem.

Instead, we should make sure that udev->descriptor.bNumConfigurations is 
always <= USB_MAXCONFIG.  That's what this code in 
usb_get_configuration() is supposed to do:

        int ncfg = dev->descriptor.bNumConfigurations;
        ...

        if (ncfg > USB_MAXCONFIG) {
                dev_warn(ddev, "too many configurations: %d, "
                    "using maximum allowed: %d\n", ncfg, USB_MAXCONFIG);
                dev->descriptor.bNumConfigurations = ncfg = USB_MAXCONFIG;
        }

If you want to fix the bug, you need to figure out why this isn't 
working.

Alan Stern