On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 02:13:36PM +0600, Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov wrote:

On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 10:59:14 -0500, Alan Stern wrote:

quoted

Won't this cause silent errors?

Agree. But there are already such as cases like in:

// net/bluetooth/hidp/core.c
static void hidp_process_report(..)
{
	..
	if (len > HID_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE)
		len = HID_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE;
	..

// drivers/hid/hid-core.c
int hid_report_raw_event(..)
{
	..
	rsize = hid_compute_report_size(report);

	if (report_enum->numbered && rsize >= HID_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE)
		rsize = HID_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE - 1;
	else if (rsize > HID_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE)
		rsize = HID_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE;
	..

// drivers/staging/greybus/hid.c
static int gb_hid_start(..)
{
	..
	if (bufsize > HID_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE)
		bufsize = HID_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE;
	..

quoted

How about instead just rejecting any device which includes a report 
whose length is too big (along with an line in the system log explaining 
what's wrong)?

Not everywhere, but there are already such as logs when > HID_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE

// drivers/hid/hidraw.c
static ssize_t hidraw_send_report(..)
{
	..
	if (count > HID_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE) {
		hid_warn(dev, "pid %d passed too large report\n",
			 task_pid_nr(current));
		ret = -EINVAL;
		goto out;
	}


I've just noticed that hid_compute_report_size() doing the same thing as
hid_report_len(). So I will replace it with latter one with length check.

So in [PATCH v2] I will do following:

 1. replace hid_compute_report_size() with hid_report_len()

 2. in hid_report_len() we can hid_warn() if length > HID_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE,
and return HID_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE. Or we can return 0 in hid_report_len() to let
functions like hid_hw_raw_request(), hid_hw_output_report() to validate
invalid report length and return -EINVAL. Though I'll need to add !length
missing checks in other places.

Please let me know what it's preferred way in 2nd step.

It's been too long since I worked on this stuff; you should check with 
the maintainers.

Another thing to consider: There probably are devices with multiple 
reports, where one of the reports is too big but people only want to use 
the other, smaller reports.  For situations like that, we don't want to 
reject the entire device.

I don't know if parsing a partiall part is a good thing to do.

Alan Stern