linux-kernel - Re: divide error in dummy

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Date:   Thu, 24 Oct 2019 20:55:48 +0200
From:   Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
To:     Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:     syzbot <syzbot+8ab8bf161038a8768553@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
        "Jacky . Cao @ sony . com" <Jacky.Cao@...y.com>,
        Felipe Balbi <balbi@...nel.org>,
        Chunfeng Yun <chunfeng.yun@...iatek.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        USB list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
        syzkaller-bugs <syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: divide error in dummy_timer

On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 7:57 PM Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 24 Oct 2019, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
>
> > > Is this really the sort of thing we need to catch?  It isn't a bug in
> > > any existing kernel code, as far as I know.  Maybe only gadgetfs and
> > > configfs need to worry about it.
> >
> > Hi Alan,
> >
> > Do you mean that the gadget driver must ensure that the max packet
> > size in the endpoint descriptor is not zero? Do HCDs rely on that? I
> > can add this check into the driver we use for USB fuzzing.
>
> Well, if there are any gadget drivers in the kernel which do set an
> endpoint's maxpacket size to 0, they should be fixed.  I'm not aware of
> any.
>
> Of course, gadget drivers in userspace are always suspect.  That's why
> I suggested having gadgetfs and configfs perform this check.  Even so
> it's not really a _security_ risk, because only the superuser is
> allowed to run a userspace gadget driver.  (Although obviously it is
> better to have a clean failure than to crash the system when a buggy
> program runs with superuser privileges.)
>
> Yes, HCDs do depend on endpoints having reasonable maxpacket values.  I
> suppose the core should check for this.  Currently we check for values
> that are too large or invalid in other ways (like high-speed bulk
> endpoints with maxpacket != 512), but we don't check for 0.

Oh, I think I've confused the terms here. I meant to ask about UDCs.
The question is whether it's OK to try and emulate a gadget with
maxpacket = 0 on a board with a hardware UDC? Or can it cause issues?
The fact that HCDs must ensure correct maxpacket values of course
makes sense.

>
> In fact, that sounds like a much better solution to the problem
> overall.  Let's see if this patch fixes the bug...
>
> Alan Stern
>
> #syz test: https://github.com/google/kasan.git 22be26f7
>
>  drivers/usb/core/config.c |    5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> Index: usb-devel/drivers/usb/core/config.c
> ===================================================================
> --- usb-devel.orig/drivers/usb/core/config.c
> +++ usb-devel/drivers/usb/core/config.c
> @@ -348,6 +348,11 @@ static int usb_parse_endpoint(struct dev
>
>         /* Validate the wMaxPacketSize field */
>         maxp = usb_endpoint_maxp(&endpoint->desc);
> +       if (maxp == 0) {
> +               dev_warn(ddev, "config %d interface %d altsetting %d endpoint 0x%X has wMaxPacketSize 0, skipping\n",
> +                   cfgno, inum, asnum, d->bEndpointAddress);
> +               goto skip_to_next_endpoint_or_interface_descriptor;
> +       }
>
>         /* Find the highest legal maxpacket size for this endpoint */
>         i = 0;          /* additional transactions per microframe */
>