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

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Date: Wed Feb 25 2026 - 09:39:25 EST


On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 09:33:05AM +0000, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 01:59:26PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > The kalmia 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,
>
> As a fix I think this warrants a fixes tag.
> As this seems problem to go back to when this driver was added,
> perhaps this one:
>
> Fixes: d40261236e8e ("net/usb: Add Samsung Kalmia driver for Samsung GT-B3730")
>
> Regardless, this looks good to me.
>
> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ...
>

Thanks for the review for this and the kaweth patch. And yes, I should
have put a fixes tag there, but for stuff that's always been around,
that's not really a big deal.

greg k-h