[Linux-kernel-mentees] [SYZBOT REPORT] divide error in usbtmc_generic_read
Greg KH
gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Thu Oct 3 19:56:27 UTC 2019
On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 01:00:16AM +0530, Jaskaran Singh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Following is my analysis of syzbot report:
> https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=688d05e810900459b03c82fb48dc609edbbf7df9
>
> The bug pertains to a divide error. The report's call trace is as follows:
>
> usbtmc_ioctl_generic_read drivers/usb/class/usbtmc.c:1029 [inline]
> usbtmc_ioctl+0x27d/0x2ab0 drivers/usb/class/usbtmc.c:2089
> vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:46 [inline]
> file_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:509 [inline]
> do_vfs_ioctl+0xd2d/0x1330 fs/ioctl.c:696
> ksys_ioctl+0x9b/0xc0 fs/ioctl.c:713
> __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:720 [inline]
> __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:718 [inline]
> __x64_sys_ioctl+0x6f/0xb0 fs/ioctl.c:718
> do_syscall_64+0xb7/0x580 arch/x86/entry/common.c:296
> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
>
> The file:line where the error occurs is this:
> drivers/usb/class/usbtmc.c:816
>
> Line 816 of that file is as follows:
> if ((max_transfer_size % data->wMaxPacketSize) == 0)
>
> Running a 'git blame' on the file in question reveals that the last
> modification to line 816 was commit bb99794a4792068cb4bfd40e99e0f9d8fe7872fa.
> The commit adds the USBTMC_IOCTL_READ call for the driver, and thus the
> usbtmc_generic_read function.
>
> I was not able to reproduce the error using my native machine and the
> same gcc version used by syzkaller (gcc 9.0.0 20181231). However, the
> error probably occurs because data->wMaxPacketSize is zero.
>
> An intuitive fix for this seems to be:
>
> - if ((max_transfer_size % data->wMaxPacketSize) == 0)
> + if (data->wMaxPacketSize &&
> + (max_transfer_size % data->wMaxPacketSize) == 0)
>
> Or perhaps introduce a guard condition above line 816 to raise an error.
Yes, if wMaxPacketSize is 0, then the code should just return an error.
Care to make up a patch for this and submit it to syzbot to see if it
solves the problem or not?
thanks,
greg k-h
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