Forwarded: [PATCH] HID: core: serialize report_descriptor_read() against probe and remove

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Date: Fri Oct 09 2026 - 04:56:32 EST


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Subject: [PATCH] HID: core: serialize report_descriptor_read() against probe and remove
Author: krishgulati7@xxxxxxxxx

#syz test: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master

Since commit 54f32fd5dff9 ("HID: Make report_descriptor available for
all devices"), the "report_descriptor" sysfs attribute is part of the
device's attribute group, so it exists from device_add() until
device_del(). It reads hdev->rdesc, but that buffer only lives from
hid_open_report() until hid_close_report(), that is, for the duration
of a driver binding. For a driver with a report_fixup() callback,
rdesc is a private copy that hid_close_report() frees, so a read that
races with the driver being unbound accesses freed memory. syzbot
reports this as:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in report_descriptor_read+0xb5/0x100
Read of size 24 at addr ffff888078d61f00 by task fido_id/7281
...
Allocated by task 10:
kmemdup_noprof+0x2b/0x70
hid_open_report+0x1fa/0xf00
lg_probe+0x29c/0x890
hid_device_probe+0x46a/0x870
...

Because hid_close_report() also clears rdesc and rsize, the same missing
serialization can make the reader see a NULL rdesc with a non-zero
rsize.

Hold the device lock in report_descriptor_read(). The driver core
already holds it across probe and remove, so a read can no longer
overlap with them.

Reported-by: syzbot+bc537ca7a0efe33988eb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=bc537ca7a0efe33988eb
Fixes: 54f32fd5dff9 ("HID: Make report_descriptor available for all devices")
Signed-off-by: Krish Gulati <krishgulati7@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/hid/hid-core.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
index a3ff0514f9cd..824557a02544 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
@@ -2270,6 +2270,8 @@ report_descriptor_read(struct file *filp, struct kobject *kobj,
struct device *dev = kobj_to_dev(kobj);
struct hid_device *hdev = to_hid_device(dev);

+ guard(device)(dev);
+
if (off >= hdev->rsize)
return 0;

--
2.56.0