Re: [PATCH 8/8] USB: serial: fix minor-number allocation

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On Sun, May 08, 2016 at 08:08:03PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> Due to a missing upper bound, invalid minor numbers could be assigned to
> ports. Such devices would later fail to register, but let's catch this
> early as intended and avoid having devices with only a subset of their
> ports registered (potentially the empty set).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c b/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c
> index 7ecf4ff86b9a..4d2b310de55d 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c
> @@ -96,7 +96,8 @@ static int allocate_minors(struct usb_serial *serial, int num_ports)
>  	mutex_lock(&table_lock);
>  	for (i = 0; i < num_ports; ++i) {
>  		port = serial->port[i];
> -		minor = idr_alloc(&serial_minors, port, 0, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
> +		minor = idr_alloc(&serial_minors, port, 0,
> +					USB_SERIAL_TTY_MINORS, GFP_KERNEL);
>  		if (minor < 0)
>  			goto error;
>  		port->minor = minor;

Nice catch for this one, and all the others in this series.

Feel free to add:
	Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

to them all if you want.

thanks,

greg k-h
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