Re: divide error in dummy_timer

From: Andrey Konovalov
Date: Thu Oct 24 2019 - 14:56:07 EST


On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 7:57 PM Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 */
>