Re: [PATCH net] net: usb: kaweth: validate USB endpoints

From: Simon Horman

Date: Tue Feb 24 2026 - 04:37:30 EST


On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 02:00:06PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> The kaweth driver should validate that the device it is probing has the
> proper number and types of USB endpoints it is expecting before it binds
> to it. If a malicious device were to not have the same urbs the driver
> will crash later on when it blindly accesses these endpoints.
>
> Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Assisted-by: gkh_clanker_2000
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Greg,

This seems to go back to the beginning of Git history, so this seems
appropriate.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")

That notwithstanding, this looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx>