usb: storage: sierra_ms: reject short SWoC info transfers

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sierra_get_swoc_info() requests sizeof(struct swoc_info) (60) bytes
from the device via usb_control_msg(), but its callers only treat a
negative return value as failure. A device that answers the
vendor-specific GetSwocInfo request with a short IN transfer is
therefore accepted, leaving the tail of the freshly allocated
(kmalloc(), non-zeroing) swoc_info buffer uninitialized.

truinst_show() subsequently prints swocInfo->rev, swocInfo->LinuxSKU
and swocInfo->LinuxVer from that buffer into the world-readable
(0444) "truinst" sysfs attribute. An emulated/malicious USB device
(VID 0x1199, PID 0x0fff) can exploit this to disclose up to 5 bytes
of stale kernel heap memory (kmalloc-64) to unprivileged userspace,
once per sysfs read, indefinitely. On kernels built without
init_on_alloc this leaks recently freed heap contents.

Only accept the transfer when the full structure was received.
sierra_ms_init() already retries failed queries, so well-behaved
devices are unaffected.

Fixes: 32fe5e3934 ("USB Storage Sierra: TRU-Install feature update")
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Syed Labeeq Sajid Bukhari <syedlabeeq@gmail.com>
Assisted-by: Kimi:K2 [Kimi Code CLI]
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260910140343.49371-1-syedlabeeq@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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Syed Labeeq Sajid Bukhari 2026-09-10 19:03:43 +05:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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