Make sure to detect short control-message transfers so that errors are logged when reading the modem status at open. Note that while this also avoids initialising the modem status using uninitialised heap data, these bits could not leak to user space as they are currently not used. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c b/drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c index 885655315de1..edbc81f205c2 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c @@ -322,8 +322,12 @@ static int mct_u232_get_modem_stat(struct usb_serial_port *port, MCT_U232_GET_REQUEST_TYPE, 0, 0, buf, MCT_U232_GET_MODEM_STAT_SIZE, WDR_TIMEOUT); - if (rc < 0) { + if (rc < MCT_U232_GET_MODEM_STAT_SIZE) { dev_err(&port->dev, "Get MODEM STATus failed (error = %d)\n", rc); + + if (rc >= 0) + rc = -EIO; + *msr = 0; } else { *msr = buf[0]; -- 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