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Ingo Rohloff 48df48dc17 usb: usbfs: Suppress problematic bind and unbind uevents.
[ Upstream commit abb0b3d96a1f9407dd66831ae33985a386d4200d ]

commit 1455cf8dbf ("driver core: emit uevents when device is bound
to a driver") added bind and unbind uevents when a driver is bound or
unbound to a physical device.

For USB devices which are handled via the generic usbfs layer (via
libusb for example), this is problematic:
Each time a user space program calls
   ioctl(usb_fd, USBDEVFS_CLAIMINTERFACE, &usb_intf_nr);
and then later
   ioctl(usb_fd, USBDEVFS_RELEASEINTERFACE, &usb_intf_nr);
The kernel will now produce a bind or unbind event, which does not
really contain any useful information.

This allows a user space program to run a DoS attack against programs
which listen to uevents (in particular systemd/eudev/upowerd):
A malicious user space program just has to call in a tight loop

   ioctl(usb_fd, USBDEVFS_CLAIMINTERFACE, &usb_intf_nr);
   ioctl(usb_fd, USBDEVFS_RELEASEINTERFACE, &usb_intf_nr);

With this loop the malicious user space program floods the kernel and
all programs listening to uevents with tons of bind and unbind
events.

This patch suppresses uevents for ioctls USBDEVFS_CLAIMINTERFACE and
USBDEVFS_RELEASEINTERFACE.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Rohloff <ingo.rohloff@lauterbach.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191011115518.2801-1-ingo.rohloff@lauterbach.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2019-12-31 16:44:07 +01:00
arch x86/mm: Use the correct function type for native_set_fixmap() 2019-12-31 16:44:04 +01:00
block block: fix "check bi_size overflow before merge" 2019-12-21 11:04:32 +01:00
certs
crypto crypto: aegis128/simd - build 32-bit ARM for v8 architecture explicitly 2019-12-31 16:43:57 +01:00
Documentation USB: documentation: flags on usb-storage versus UAS 2019-12-17 19:55:32 +01:00
drivers usb: usbfs: Suppress problematic bind and unbind uevents. 2019-12-31 16:44:07 +01:00
fs Btrfs: fix removal logic of the tree mod log that leads to use-after-free issues 2019-12-31 16:42:07 +01:00
include block: Fix writeback throttling W=1 compiler warnings 2019-12-31 16:43:47 +01:00
init Merge branch 'next-lockdown' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-09-28 08:14:15 -07:00
ipc ipc/sem.c: convert to use built-in RCU list checking 2019-09-25 17:51:41 -07:00
kernel workqueue: Fix missing kfree(rescuer) in destroy_workqueue() 2019-12-17 19:56:54 +01:00
lib lib: raid6: fix awk build warnings 2019-12-17 19:56:09 +01:00
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mm mm/shmem.c: cast the type of unmap_start to u64 2019-12-17 19:56:51 +01:00
net net/smc: increase device refcount for added link group 2019-12-31 16:43:53 +01:00
samples samples: pktgen: fix proc_cmd command result check logic 2019-12-31 16:43:45 +01:00
scripts arm64 fix for -rc8 / final 2019-11-15 09:14:23 -08:00
security efi/efi_test: Lock down /dev/efi_test and require CAP_SYS_ADMIN 2019-10-31 09:40:21 +01:00
sound ASoC: SOF: enable sync_write in hdac_bus 2019-12-31 16:43:58 +01:00
tools perf vendor events arm64: Fix Hisi hip08 DDRC PMU eventname 2019-12-31 16:44:06 +01:00
usr kbuild: update compile-test header list for v5.4-rc2 2019-10-05 15:29:49 +09:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Don't rely on the wrong pending table 2019-12-13 08:43:00 +01:00
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.mailmap ARM: SoC fixes 2019-11-10 13:41:59 -08:00
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MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-11-22 14:28:14 -08:00
Makefile Linux 5.4.6 2019-12-21 11:05:23 +01:00
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