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[2/3] usbcore/driver: Fix incorrect downcast

Message ID 20200917144151.355848-2-m.v.b@runbox.com
State New
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Series [1/3] usbcore/driver: Fix specific driver selection | expand

Commit Message

M. Vefa Bicakci Sept. 17, 2020, 2:41 p.m. UTC
This commit resolves a minor bug in the selection/discovery of more
specific USB device drivers for devices that are currently bound to
generic USB device drivers.

The bug is related to the way a candidate USB device driver is
compared against the generic USB device driver. The code in
is_dev_usb_generic_driver() assumes that the device driver in question
is a USB device driver by calling to_usb_device_driver(dev->driver)
to downcast; however I have observed that this assumption is not always
true, through code instrumentation.

Given that USB device drivers are bound to struct device instances with
of the type &usb_device_type, this commit checks the return value of
is_usb_device() before the call to is_dev_usb_generic_driver(), and
therefore ensures that incorrect type downcasts do not occur. The use
of is_usb_device() was suggested by Bastien Nocera.

This bug was found while investigating Andrey Konovalov's report
indicating USB/IP subsystem's misbehaviour with the generic USB device
driver matching code.

Fixes: d5643d2249 ("USB: Fix device driver race")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-usb/CAAeHK+zOrHnxjRFs=OE8T=O9208B9HP_oo8RZpyVOZ9AJ54pAA@mail.gmail.com/
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.8
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Cc: <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Signed-off-by: M. Vefa Bicakci <m.v.b@runbox.com>
---
 drivers/usb/core/driver.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Alan Stern Sept. 17, 2020, 3:01 p.m. UTC | #1
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 05:41:50PM +0300, M. Vefa Bicakci wrote:
> This commit resolves a minor bug in the selection/discovery of more

> specific USB device drivers for devices that are currently bound to

> generic USB device drivers.

> 

> The bug is related to the way a candidate USB device driver is

> compared against the generic USB device driver. The code in

> is_dev_usb_generic_driver() assumes that the device driver in question

> is a USB device driver by calling to_usb_device_driver(dev->driver)

> to downcast; however I have observed that this assumption is not always

> true, through code instrumentation.

> 

> Given that USB device drivers are bound to struct device instances with

> of the type &usb_device_type, this commit checks the return value of

> is_usb_device() before the call to is_dev_usb_generic_driver(), and

> therefore ensures that incorrect type downcasts do not occur. The use

> of is_usb_device() was suggested by Bastien Nocera.

> 

> This bug was found while investigating Andrey Konovalov's report

> indicating USB/IP subsystem's misbehaviour with the generic USB device

> driver matching code.

> 

> Fixes: d5643d2249 ("USB: Fix device driver race")

> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-usb/CAAeHK+zOrHnxjRFs=OE8T=O9208B9HP_oo8RZpyVOZ9AJ54pAA@mail.gmail.com/

> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.8

> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>

> Cc: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>

> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>

> Cc: <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>

> Signed-off-by: M. Vefa Bicakci <m.v.b@runbox.com>

> ---

>  drivers/usb/core/driver.c | 2 +-

>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

> 

> diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/driver.c b/drivers/usb/core/driver.c

> index 950044a6e77f..ba7acd6e7cc4 100644

> --- a/drivers/usb/core/driver.c

> +++ b/drivers/usb/core/driver.c

> @@ -919,7 +919,7 @@ static int __usb_bus_reprobe_drivers(struct device *dev, void *data)

>  	struct usb_device *udev;

>  	int ret;

>  

> -	if (!is_dev_usb_generic_driver(dev))

> +	if (!is_usb_device(dev) || !is_dev_usb_generic_driver(dev))

>  		return 0;

>  

>  	udev = to_usb_device(dev);

> -- 

> 2.26.2


Why not simplify the whole thing by testing the underlying driver 
pointer?

	/* Don't reprobe if current driver isn't usb_generic_driver */
	if (dev->driver != &usb_generic_driver.drvwrap.driver)
		return 0;

Then is_dev_usb_generic_driver can be removed entirely.

Alan Stern
M. Vefa Bicakci Sept. 18, 2020, 9:26 a.m. UTC | #2
On 17/09/2020 18.01, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 05:41:50PM +0300, M. Vefa Bicakci wrote:

>> This commit resolves a minor bug in the selection/discovery of more

>> specific USB device drivers for devices that are currently bound to

>> generic USB device drivers.

>>

>> The bug is related to the way a candidate USB device driver is

>> compared against the generic USB device driver. The code in

>> is_dev_usb_generic_driver() assumes that the device driver in question

>> is a USB device driver by calling to_usb_device_driver(dev->driver)

>> to downcast; however I have observed that this assumption is not always

>> true, through code instrumentation.

>>

>> Given that USB device drivers are bound to struct device instances with

>> of the type &usb_device_type, this commit checks the return value of

>> is_usb_device() before the call to is_dev_usb_generic_driver(), and

>> therefore ensures that incorrect type downcasts do not occur. The use

>> of is_usb_device() was suggested by Bastien Nocera.

>>

>> This bug was found while investigating Andrey Konovalov's report

>> indicating USB/IP subsystem's misbehaviour with the generic USB device

>> driver matching code.

>>

>> Fixes: d5643d2249 ("USB: Fix device driver race")

>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-usb/CAAeHK+zOrHnxjRFs=OE8T=O9208B9HP_oo8RZpyVOZ9AJ54pAA@mail.gmail.com/

>> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.8

>> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

>> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>

>> Cc: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>

>> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>

>> Cc: <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>

>> Signed-off-by: M. Vefa Bicakci <m.v.b@runbox.com>

>> ---

>>   drivers/usb/core/driver.c | 2 +-

>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

>>

>> diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/driver.c b/drivers/usb/core/driver.c

>> index 950044a6e77f..ba7acd6e7cc4 100644

>> --- a/drivers/usb/core/driver.c

>> +++ b/drivers/usb/core/driver.c

>> @@ -919,7 +919,7 @@ static int __usb_bus_reprobe_drivers(struct device *dev, void *data)

>>   	struct usb_device *udev;

>>   	int ret;

>>   

>> -	if (!is_dev_usb_generic_driver(dev))

>> +	if (!is_usb_device(dev) || !is_dev_usb_generic_driver(dev))

>>   		return 0;

>>   

>>   	udev = to_usb_device(dev);

>> -- 

>> 2.26.2

> 

> Why not simplify the whole thing by testing the underlying driver

> pointer?

> 

> 	/* Don't reprobe if current driver isn't usb_generic_driver */

> 	if (dev->driver != &usb_generic_driver.drvwrap.driver)

> 		return 0;

> 

> Then is_dev_usb_generic_driver can be removed entirely.


Alan, sorry for the delay, and thanks for the review! I had not thought
of this. I will apply the changes you have suggested with the next version
of the patch series.

Thanks again,

Vefa
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/driver.c b/drivers/usb/core/driver.c
index 950044a6e77f..ba7acd6e7cc4 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/driver.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/driver.c
@@ -919,7 +919,7 @@  static int __usb_bus_reprobe_drivers(struct device *dev, void *data)
 	struct usb_device *udev;
 	int ret;
 
-	if (!is_dev_usb_generic_driver(dev))
+	if (!is_usb_device(dev) || !is_dev_usb_generic_driver(dev))
 		return 0;
 
 	udev = to_usb_device(dev);