Make sure to detect short responses when reading the latency timer to avoid using stale buffer data. Note that no heap data would currently leak through sysfs as ASYNC_LOW_LATENCY is set by default. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c b/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c index 6dee20fc7e45..b064fad8e3ee 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c @@ -1439,10 +1439,13 @@ static int read_latency_timer(struct usb_serial_port *port) FTDI_SIO_GET_LATENCY_TIMER_REQUEST_TYPE, 0, priv->interface, buf, 1, WDR_TIMEOUT); - if (rv < 0) + if (rv < 1) { dev_err(&port->dev, "Unable to read latency timer: %i\n", rv); - else + if (rv >= 0) + rv = -EIO; + } else { priv->latency = buf[0]; + } kfree(buf); -- 2.10.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html