RE: [syzbot] WARNING in rtl8152_probe

From: Hayes Wang
Date: Fri May 14 2021 - 03:50:44 EST


Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2021 2:49 PM
[...]
> Because people can create "bad" devices and plug them into a system
> which causes the driver to load and then potentially crash the system or
> do other bad things.
>
> USB drivers now need to be able to handle "malicious" devices, it's been
> that way for many years now.

My question is that even I check whole the USB descriptor, the malicious
devices could duplicate it easily to pass my checks. That is, I could add a
lot of checks, but it still doesn't prevent malicious devices. Is this meaningful?

Best Regards,
Hayes