Re: [PATCH 00/15] USB: serial: fix control-message error handling

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On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 02:56:08PM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> Several USB serial drivers failed to detect short control transfers,
> something which could lead to uninitialised data leaking to user space
> or being treated as valid input.
> 
> The two information-leak fixes are marked for stable, and so is the
> spcp8x5 modem-status fix.
> 
> Included is also a clean up removing an unnecessary allocation from
> iuu_phoenix.
> 
> These are all intended for inclusion in 4.11.

Ugh, nice find, I never thought about short control messages leaking
info :(

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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