Re: CVE-2025-38495: HID: core: ensure the allocated report buffer can contain the reserved report ID

[gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2025 at 10:54:06AM +0000, Siddh Raman Pant wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30 2025 at 16:19:44 +0530, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
> > What git id is that?
> 
> 0d0777ccaa2d46609d05b66ba0096802a2746193

That commit id on its own does not "fix" anything that we can see, which
is why it was not given a CVE.

> > And this commit on its own fixes a problem, so it should be a separate
> > CVE, right?
> 
> The reservation of 1st byte happens in the next commit.
> 
> Not sure why the change was broken up into two.

Then the second change is the one that gets the CVE.  Any "previous"
commits in a series that were preparing for the real fix are not called
out.  As each CVE entry says, do NOT cherry-pick, but rather always take
all of the commits in the stable release.

thanks,

greg k-h