[PATCH] HID: steam: reject short serial number reports

From: Yousef Alhouseen

Date: Sat Jun 27 2026 - 20:41:23 EST


steam_recv_report() may return a short positive response and copies
only the bytes actually received. steam_get_serial() nevertheless reads
the full three-byte header and trusts its length without checking that
the serial payload was returned.

A malformed USB device can therefore make the driver read uninitialized
stack bytes. With a complete-looking short header, those bytes can also
be copied into steam->serial_no and printed.

Account for the stripped report ID in the return value and reject replies
that do not contain both the header and its declared payload.

Fixes: c164d6abf384 ("HID: add driver for Valve Steam Controller")
Reported-by: syzbot+75f3f9bff8c510602d36@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=75f3f9bff8c510602d36
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Yousef Alhouseen <alhouseenyousef@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/hid/hid-steam.c | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-steam.c b/drivers/hid/hid-steam.c
index 197126d6e081..8c8bfb10e8b8 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-steam.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-steam.c
@@ -454,11 +454,20 @@ static int steam_get_serial(struct steam_device *steam)
ret = steam_recv_report(steam, reply, sizeof(reply));
if (ret < 0)
goto out;
+ /* hid_hw_raw_request() counts the stripped report ID byte. */
+ if (ret < 4) {
+ ret = -EIO;
+ goto out;
+ }
if (reply[0] != ID_GET_STRING_ATTRIBUTE || reply[1] < 1 ||
reply[1] > sizeof(steam->serial_no) || reply[2] != ATTRIB_STR_UNIT_SERIAL) {
ret = -EIO;
goto out;
}
+ if (ret - 1 < 3 + reply[1]) {
+ ret = -EIO;
+ goto out;
+ }
reply[3 + STEAM_SERIAL_LEN] = 0;
strscpy(steam->serial_no, reply + 3, reply[1]);
out:
--
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