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Change History

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

USB: usbfs: Don't WARN about excessively large memory allocations

Syzbot found that the kernel generates a WARNing if the user tries to
submit a bulk transfer through usbfs with a buffer that is way too
large.  This isn't a bug in the kernel; it's merely an invalid request
from the user and the usbfs code does handle it correctly.

In theory the same thing can happen with async transfers, or with the
packet descriptor table fo

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ab21d6e1411999b5fb43434f421f00bf50002eb [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c835fede13e03f2743a333e4370b5ed2db91e83 [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f2629ea67e7225c3fd292c7fe4f5b3c9d6392de [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d83f109e920d2776991fa142bb904d985dca2ed [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f7cb3f01a10d9064cf13b3d26fb7e7a5827d098 [No types assigned]