Re: [PATCH v2] HID: intel-ish-hid: clamp HID device count to MAX_HID_DEVICES

[srinivas pandruvada]

+Lixu

On Thu, 2026-07-30 at 20:25 +0800, Shen Yongchao wrote:
> The HOSTIF_DM_ENUM_DEVICES response handler takes the HID device
> count from the first payload byte of the ISH firmware response
> (max 255) and stores it in hid_dev_count without any bounds
> check.  This value propagates to num_hid_devices and is used to
> index five fixed-size arrays in struct ishtp_cl_data
> (MAX_HID_DEVICES = 32): report_descr[], report_descr_size[],
> hid_sensor_hubs[], hid_descr[], and hid_descr_size[].
> 
> If the firmware reports more than 32 devices, hid_ishtp_cl_init()
> writes past all five arrays, corrupting subsequent struct fields
> (including work_struct members with embedded function pointers)
> and potentially adjacent heap objects.
> 
> Clamp hid_dev_count to MAX_HID_DEVICES at the single point where
> it enters the driver (process_recv, ENUM_DEVICES branch), which
> covers both the probe and the reset paths.
> 
> This is a data-validation hardening fix: the ISH firmware is
> within the platform trust boundary (loaded via CSME).
> 
> This patch was drafted with AI assistance; the vulnerability
> analysis and source-level verification were done manually.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shen Yongchao <grayhat@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 0b28cb4bcb17 ("HID: intel-ish-hid: ISH HID client driver")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Assisted-by: AGENT_NAME:MODEL_VERSION [TOOL1] [TOOL2]


Thanks,
Srinivas

> ---
>  drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp-hid-client.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp-hid-client.c
> b/drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp-hid-client.c
> index 6d64008..XXXXXXX 100644
> --- a/drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp-hid-client.c
> +++ b/drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp-hid-client.c
> @@ -123,6 +123,8 @@ static void process_recv(struct ishtp_cl
> *hid_ishtp_cl, void *recv_buf,
>  				break;
>  			}
>  			client_data->hid_dev_count = (unsigned
> int)*payload;
> +			if (client_data->hid_dev_count >
> MAX_HID_DEVICES)
> +				client_data->hid_dev_count =
> MAX_HID_DEVICES;
>  			if (!client_data->hid_devices)
>  				client_data->hid_devices =
> devm_kcalloc(
>  						cl_data_to_dev(clien
> t_data),