linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv3 5/5] usb: gadget: udc-core: independent registration of gadgets and gadget drivers

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 10 Mar 2015 20:53:11 -0500
From:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
To:	Ruslan Bilovol <ruslan.bilovol@...il.com>
CC:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	"Balbi, Felipe" <balbi@...com>,
	"linux-usb@...r.kernel.org" <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Krzysztof Opasiak <k.opasiak@...sung.com>,
	Peter Chen <peter.chen@...escale.com>,
	"gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <andrzej.p@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 5/5] usb: gadget: udc-core: independent registration of
 gadgets and gadget drivers

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 02:21:38AM +0200, Ruslan Bilovol wrote:
> >> @@ -469,6 +488,16 @@ int usb_gadget_unregister_driver(struct usb_gadget_driver *driver)
> >>                       break;
> >>               }
> >>
> >> +     if (ret) {
> >> +             struct usb_gadget_driver *tmp;
> >> +
> >> +             list_for_each_entry(tmp, &gadget_driver_pending_list, pending)
> >> +                     if (tmp == driver) {
> >> +                             list_del(&driver->pending);
> >> +                             ret = 0;
> >> +                             break;
> >> +                     }
> >> +     }
> >
> > If you add the list_init and list_del_init above, this loop won't be
> > needed.  You can just call list_del.
> 
> I disagree with this. This function is externally visible and we can't
> guarantee that some buggy code will not call it with uninitialized
> 'pending' list_head. For example, if it never called usb_gadget_probe_driver()
> but calls usb_gadget_unregister_driver().

those cases deserve to suffer a really painfull and horrible death by
means of a kernel oops ;-) Sure, defensive programming and all, but at
some point we need to consider certain cases ridiculous and just not do
anything about them, so people know that they need more coffee and
attention while writing code.

-- 
balbi

Download attachment "signature.asc" of type "application/pgp-signature" (820 bytes)