On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 12:18:54PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> Erroneous or malicious endpoint descriptors may have non-zero bits in
> reserved positions, or out-of-bounds values.  This patch helps prevent
> these from causing problems by bounds-checking the wMaxPacketValue
> entries in endpoint descriptors and capping the values at the maximum
> allowed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <st...@rowland.harvard.edu>
> Reported-by: roswest <rosw...@cisco.com>
> Tested-by: roswest <rosw...@cisco.com>
> 
> ---
> 
> I don't think this needs to go into the -stable kernels, but if anyone
> disagrees I won't object.

It's a "hardening" think to fix a known issue, I think it should go
there, but will wait for some testing in Linus's tree before doing so.

thanks,

greg k-h
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