drivers/usb/serial/ti_usb_3410_5052.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
Avoid dereferencing port->read_urb when it is NULL, which may happen if
usb_alloc_urb() fails or initialization of usb_serial_port is incomplete.
Dereferencing a NULL pointer in ti_open() leads to a kernel crash.
This condition was detected by a static analyzer, but can also occur
in practice if memory allocation fails in probe path or if the driver
is incorrectly initialized by a faulty device descriptor.
Check port->read_urb for NULL before calling usb_clear_halt() to
prevent the crash.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Alexei Safin <a.safin@rosa.ru>
---
drivers/usb/serial/ti_usb_3410_5052.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/ti_usb_3410_5052.c b/drivers/usb/serial/ti_usb_3410_5052.c
index b99f78224846..8466336714e8 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/ti_usb_3410_5052.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/ti_usb_3410_5052.c
@@ -710,6 +710,13 @@ static int ti_open(struct tty_struct *tty, struct usb_serial_port *port)
/* reset the data toggle on the bulk endpoints to work around bug in
* host controllers where things get out of sync some times */
usb_clear_halt(dev, port->write_urb->pipe);
+
+ if (!port->read_urb) {
+ dev_err(&port->dev, "%s - no read urb\n", __func__);
+ status = -EINVAL;
+ goto unlink_int_urb;
+ }
+
usb_clear_halt(dev, port->read_urb->pipe);
if (tty)
--
2.39.5 (Apple Git-154)
On Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 11:51:40PM +0300, Alexei Safin wrote:
> Avoid dereferencing port->read_urb when it is NULL, which may happen if
> usb_alloc_urb() fails or initialization of usb_serial_port is incomplete.
>
> Dereferencing a NULL pointer in ti_open() leads to a kernel crash.
> This condition was detected by a static analyzer, but can also occur
> in practice if memory allocation fails in probe path or if the driver
> is incorrectly initialized by a faulty device descriptor.
No, this can't happen as probe would abort on allocation failures and
the malicious descriptor case was fixed 8 years ago by commit
ef079936d3cd ("USB: serial: ti_usb_3410_5052: fix NULL-deref at open").
Johan
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