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USB: usb_driver_claim_interface: add sanity checking
authorOliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
Wed, 16 Mar 2016 12:26:17 +0000 (13:26 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 12 Apr 2016 16:08:41 +0000 (09:08 -0700)
commitb6c6426252e2653407811f46c883661955b9f5fa
treef78a9253351c4986e5c998c9406cd1ea1071c5e5
parent850631bedd3cb7f79cb32a456c9ad3a5f6e1d1f3
USB: usb_driver_claim_interface: add sanity checking

commit 0b818e3956fc1ad976bee791eadcbb3b5fec5bfd upstream.

Attacks that trick drivers into passing a NULL pointer
to usb_driver_claim_interface() using forged descriptors are
known. This thwarts them by sanity checking.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <ONeukum@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/usb/core/driver.c