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Commit c01c348e authored by Alan Stern's avatar Alan Stern Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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USB: core: Fix unterminated string returned by usb_string()



Some drivers (such as the vub300 MMC driver) expect usb_string() to
return a properly NUL-terminated string, even when an error occurs.
(In fact, vub300's probe routine doesn't bother to check the return
code from usb_string().)  When the driver goes on to use an
unterminated string, it leads to kernel errors such as
stack-out-of-bounds, as found by the syzkaller USB fuzzer.

An out-of-range string index argument is not at all unlikely, given
that some devices don't provide string descriptors and therefore list
0 as the value for their string indexes.  This patch makes
usb_string() return a properly terminated empty string along with the
-EINVAL error code when an out-of-range index is encountered.

And since a USB string index is a single-byte value, indexes >= 256
are just as invalid as values of 0 or below.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Reported-by: default avatar <syzbot+b75b85111c10b8d680f1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 79a3aaa7
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