usbcore/driver: Fix incorrect downcast
authorM. Vefa Bicakci <m.v.b@runbox.com>
Tue, 22 Sep 2020 11:07:02 +0000 (14:07 +0300)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 25 Sep 2020 14:53:02 +0000 (16:53 +0200)
commit4df30e7603432704380b12fe40a604ee7f66746d
tree2bb310eb7c2b29bfc1824b08b8e141df13a8cefc
parentaea850cd35ae3d266fe6f93fb9edb25e4a555230
usbcore/driver: Fix incorrect downcast

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.

This commit avoids the incorrect downcast altogether by comparing
the USB device's driver (i.e., dev->driver) to the generic USB
device driver directly. This method was suggested by Alan Stern.

This bug was found while investigating Andrey Konovalov's report
indicating usbip device driver misbehaviour with the recently merged
generic USB device driver selection feature. The report is linked
below.

Fixes: d5643d2249b2 ("USB: Fix device driver race")
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: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Valentina Manea <valentina.manea.m@gmail.com>
Cc: <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Tested-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: M. Vefa Bicakci <m.v.b@runbox.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200922110703.720960-4-m.v.b@runbox.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/usb/core/driver.c