Re: [PATCH v2] usb: usbtest: disable dynamic ID support

Aleksandr Nogikh <[email protected]> Thu, 6 Aug 2026 16:35:12 +0200
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-usb,dev.linux.lists.syzbot,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <CANp29Y7R1OzK3mo_i6uBxLV6zCgFUVxMgrfozAT-QNivp+gHMg@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Aug 6, 2026 at 4:32 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2026 at 02:25:11PM +0000, Aleksandr Nogikh wrote:
> > The usbtest driver relies on the driver_info field of struct usb_device_id
> > to point to a valid struct usbtest_info descriptor. This structure contains
> > essential test configurations, such as endpoint addresses and test modes,
> > which are required during probe.
> >
> > When a user dynamically adds a new device ID via the sysfs new_id
> > interface without specifying a reference device, the USB core initializes
> > driver_info to 0 (NULL). When a matching device is subsequently probed,
> > usbtest_probe() unconditionally casts driver_info to a struct usbtest_info
> > pointer and dereferences it, leading to a NULL pointer dereference crash:
> >
> >   Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
> >   0xdffffc0000000001: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
> >   KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]
> >   RIP: 0010:usbtest_probe+0x3b9/0x1280 drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.c:2822
> >
> > Because usbtest strictly requires pre-defined usbtest_info descriptors
> > to function, dynamic ID binding via sysfs is fundamentally unsupported
> > for this driver.
> >
> > Fix this by setting .no_dynamic_id = 1 on usbtest_driver. This instructs
> > the USB core to skip creating the new_id and remove_id sysfs interfaces
> > for usbtest, preventing invalid dynamic ID entries from being created.
> >
> > Reported-by: [email protected]
> > Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=7e1e5911f9eac50bedc7
> > Signed-off-by: Aleksandr Nogikh <[email protected]>
>
> Shouldn't this also get a cc: stable?

Is there (in general) value in cc: stable without a Fixes: tag?

>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h