Re: [PATCH 1/1] usb: gadget: f_hid: fix report descriptor allocation

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Dec 05 2023 - 12:34:12 EST


On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 11:54:03AM +0300, Konstantin Aladyshev wrote:
> The commit "usb: gadget: f_hid: fix f_hidg lifetime vs cdev"
> (89ff3dfac604614287ad5aad9370c3f984ea3f4b) has introduced a bug
> that leads to hid device corruption after the replug operation.

Nit, this should be written as
89ff3dfac604 ("usb: gadget: f_hid: fix f_hidg lifetime vs cdev")
right?

> Reverse device managed memory allocation for the report descriptor
> to fix the issue.
>
> Tested:
> This change was tested on the AMD EthanolX CRB server with the BMC
> based on the OpenBMC distribution. The BMC provides KVM functionality
> via the USB gadget device:
> - before: KVM page refresh results in a broken USB device,
> - after: KVM page refresh works without any issues.
>
> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Aladyshev <aladyshev22@xxxxxxxxx>

We need a Fixes: tag here and also a cc: stable so that this gets
properly backported.

> ---
> drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_hid.c | 7 ++++---
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_hid.c b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_hid.c
> index ea85e2c701a1..3c8a9dd585c0 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_hid.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_hid.c
> @@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ static void hidg_release(struct device *dev)
> {
> struct f_hidg *hidg = container_of(dev, struct f_hidg, dev);
>
> + kfree(hidg->report_desc);
> kfree(hidg->set_report_buf);
> kfree(hidg);
> }
> @@ -1287,9 +1288,9 @@ static struct usb_function *hidg_alloc(struct usb_function_instance *fi)
> hidg->report_length = opts->report_length;
> hidg->report_desc_length = opts->report_desc_length;
> if (opts->report_desc) {
> - hidg->report_desc = devm_kmemdup(&hidg->dev, opts->report_desc,
> - opts->report_desc_length,
> - GFP_KERNEL);
> + hidg->report_desc = kmemdup(opts->report_desc,
> + opts->report_desc_length,
> + GFP_KERNEL);

Yet one more reason why devm_*() functions are dangerous to use :(

Nice fix.

thanks,

greg k-h