On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 09:55:58AM +0000, Qasim Ijaz wrote: > This patch addresses a null-ptr-deref in qt2_process_read_urb() due to > an incorrect bounds check in the following: Thanks for the fix. This looks correct, but your patch is whitespace damaged (tabs replaced with spaces) and does not apply. Can you please fix your mail setup and resend a v3? (Make sure to send it to yourself first.) When doing so, please use the common patch prefix for this driver: USB: serial: quatech2: > "" You can drop these (markup?) quotes. > if (newport > serial->num_ports) { > dev_err(&port->dev, > "%s - port change to invalid port: %i\n", > __func__, newport); > break; > } > "" > > The condition doesn't account for the valid range of the serial->port > buffer, which is from 0 to serial->num_ports - 1. When newport is equal > to serial->num_ports, the assignment of "port" in the > following code is out-of-bounds and NULL: > > "" > serial_priv->current_port = newport; > port = serial->port[serial_priv->current_port]; > > "" > > The fix checks if newport is greater than or equal to serial->num_ports > indicating it is out-of-bounds. > > Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+506479ebf12fe435d01a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=506479ebf12fe435d01a > Signed-off-by: Qasim Ijaz <qasdev00@xxxxxxxxx> And please include a Fixes and CC stable tag: Fixes: f7a33e608d9a ("USB: serial: add quatech2 usb to serial driver") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 3.5 Johan