On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 07:24:16PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:

On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 09:55:48AM -0800, Will McVicker wrote:

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On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 09:59:57AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:

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On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 12:48:48AM +0000, Will McVicker wrote:

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The HID subsystem allows an "HID report field" to have a different
number of "values" and "usages" when it is allocated. When a field
struct is created, the size of the usage array is guaranteed to be at
least as large as the values array, but it may be larger. This leads to
a potential out-of-bounds write in
__hidinput_change_resolution_multipliers() and an out-of-bounds read in
hidinput_count_leds().

To fix this, let's make sure that both the usage and value arrays are
the same size.

Signed-off-by: Will McVicker <redacted>

Any reason not to also add a cc: stable on this?

No reason not to include stable. CC'd here.

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And, has this always been the case, or was this caused by some specific
commit in the past?  If so, a "Fixes:" tag is always nice to included.

I dug into the history and it's been like this for the past 10 years. So yeah
pretty much always like this.

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And finally, as you have a fix for this already, no need to cc:
security@k.o as there's nothing the people there can do about it now :)

Is that short for security@kernel.org? If yes, then I did include them. If no,
do you mind explaining?

Yes, I see you included it, my point was that once you have a patch,
there is no need to include this email address as all we do at this
address is work to match up a problem with a developer that can create a
fix.  You already did this, so no need for us to get involved at all! :)

thanks,

greg k-h

Ah okay, thanks for the explanation!

--Will