linux/drivers/hid/usbhid
Baul Lee 67bb1074e3 HID: pidff: fix OOB write when hid->inputs is empty
hid_pidff_init_with_quirks() derives its input_dev from

	list_entry(hid->inputs.next, struct hid_input, list)

without first checking that hid->inputs is non-empty.  The list member
of struct hid_input is at offset 0, so on an empty list list_entry()
yields &hid->inputs itself and the following hidinput->input load reads
an unrelated member of struct hid_device.  dev is then a type-confused
pointer, and force-feedback init writes through it: each
set_bit(FF_*, dev->ffbit) stores 8 bytes at dev + 192, past the end of
the object dev actually aliases, and input_ff_create() adds further
writes of a heap pointer and two function pointers.

Until hid-universal-pidff the only caller was hid_pidff_init() from
usbhid, which runs under HID_CLAIMED_INPUT and therefore always has at
least one hid_input.  universal_pidff_probe() starts the device with
HID_CONNECT_DEFAULT & ~HID_CONNECT_FF and then calls
hid_pidff_init_with_quirks() directly whenever the descriptor carries a
PID usage page, bypassing that gate.  A report descriptor whose only
application collection is on HID_UP_PID leaves hid->inputs empty while
hid_connect() still succeeds through the hidraw claim, so probe reaches
the unguarded list_entry().

The write happens in the USB probe path, on the hotplug workqueue, so
plugging in a malicious device is enough to trigger it; no attacker
software and no logged-in user are required.  KASAN reports an 8-byte
out-of-bounds write in hid_pidff_init_with_quirks() reached from
universal_pidff_probe().

Check for an empty list before deriving dev and return -ENODEV, as the
other HID force-feedback drivers already do.  universal_pidff_probe()
propagates the error and unwinds.

Discovered by XBOW, triaged by Baul Lee <baul.lee@xbow.com>

Fixes: f06bf8d94f ("HID: Add hid-universal-pidff driver and supported device ids")
Reported-by: Federico Kirschbaum <federico.kirschbaum@xbow.com>
Reported-by: Baul Lee <baul.lee@xbow.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Baul Lee <baul.lee@xbow.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.com>
2026-08-03 20:27:41 +02:00
..
hid-core.c Merge branch 'for-7.2/core' into for-linus 2026-06-16 21:57:57 +02:00
hid-pidff.c HID: pidff: fix OOB write when hid->inputs is empty 2026-08-03 20:27:41 +02:00
hid-pidff.h HID: pidff: Add MISSING_DEADBAND quirk 2026-02-26 15:46:00 +01:00
hiddev.c Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument 2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
Kconfig HID: intel-thc: fix CONFIG_HID dependency 2025-02-03 10:56:43 +01:00
Makefile HID: core: move the dynamic quirks handling in core 2017-11-21 11:14:48 +01:00
usbhid.h Revert "HID: usbhid: do not sleep when opening device" 2020-08-18 19:54:04 +02:00
usbkbd.c HID: usbhid: replace strlcat with better alternatives 2026-05-12 17:33:07 +02:00
usbmouse.c HID: usbhid: replace strlcat with better alternatives 2026-05-12 17:33:07 +02:00