Re: Fwd: issues with gamepad on hardened

Paige Thompson <[email protected]> Sat, 20 Dec 2014 09:43:20 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.gentoo.hardened
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On 12/20/14 09:40, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Dec 2014, Jiri Kosina wrote:
>
>>> yes the hid_sony driver is buggy and the hardening makes it visible. It
>>> passes structures on stack (as parameters to hid_hw_raw_request() to
>>> HID/USB as DMA-able buffers. These structures must be allocated via
>>> kmalloc() or USB allocation primitives.
>> This has already been fixed in Linus' tree for 3.9-rc1.
> 3.19-rc1, sorry for the typo. The commit in question was 9b2b5c9a79.
>

Hahaha, I was about to say...

Interesting! Thanks again everyone for your help I really appreciate it.

-Paige