Re: [PATCH] usb: core: Prevent null pointer dereference in update_port_device_state

[Udipto Goswami]

Hi Greg,

On 1/4/2024 4:14 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 03:56:16PM +0530, Udipto Goswami wrote:
> > Currently,the function update_port_device_state gets the usb_hub from
> > udev->parent by calling usb_hub_to_struct_hub.
> > However, in case the actconfig or the maxchild is 0, the usb_hub would
> > be NULL and upon further accessing to get port_dev would result in null
> > pointer dereference.
>
> Is this true for any real (or fake) hardware?

We saw this in our QCOM hardwares where lvstest.c was calling 
get_dev_desc_store:

	usb_set_device_state+0x128/0x17c
	create_lvs_device+0x60/0xf8 [lvstest]
	get_dev_desc_store+0x94/0x18c [lvstest]
	dev_attr_store+0x30/0x48

I think the part of the test procedure is to first unbind the hub driver 
which calls hub_disconnect setting the maxchild = 0.

So if after this the dev_attr try to access, it throws the NULL pointer 
de-reference.

> > Fix this by introducing an if check after the usb_hub is populated.
> >
> > Fixes: 83cb2604f641 ("usb: core: add sysfs entry for usb device state")
> > Signed-off-by: Udipto Goswami <quic_ugoswami@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Any specific reason you don't want this backported to the stable kernels
> that include the commit you marked this as a fix for?
>
> As my bot says:
>
> - You have marked a patch with a "Fixes:" tag for a commit that is in an
>    older released kernel, yet you do not have a cc: stable line in the
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>    applied to any older kernel releases.  To properly fix this, please
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Got it, I'll take care of it in next version.

Thanks,
-Udipto