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: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Reported-by: <syzbot+b75b85111c10b8d680f1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com> CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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