This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled USB: serial: ftdi_sio: make process-packet buffer unsigned to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: usb-serial-ftdi_sio-make-process-packet-buffer-unsig.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit d61346287dddcda8ec23950569ff4cc312ceefbc Author: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Jul 8 14:49:51 2020 +0200 USB: serial: ftdi_sio: make process-packet buffer unsigned [ Upstream commit ab4cc4ef6724ea588e835fc1e764c4b4407a70b7 ] Use an unsigned type for the process-packet buffer argument and give it a more apt name. Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c b/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c index 8388f88ce6356..4b9404f99c010 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c @@ -2051,12 +2051,12 @@ static int ftdi_prepare_write_buffer(struct usb_serial_port *port, #define FTDI_RS_ERR_MASK (FTDI_RS_BI | FTDI_RS_PE | FTDI_RS_FE | FTDI_RS_OE) static int ftdi_process_packet(struct usb_serial_port *port, - struct ftdi_private *priv, char *packet, int len) + struct ftdi_private *priv, unsigned char *buf, int len) { + unsigned char status; + unsigned char *ch; int i; - char status; char flag; - char *ch; if (len < 2) { dev_dbg(&port->dev, "malformed packet\n"); @@ -2066,7 +2066,7 @@ static int ftdi_process_packet(struct usb_serial_port *port, /* Compare new line status to the old one, signal if different/ N.B. packet may be processed more than once, but differences are only processed once. */ - status = packet[0] & FTDI_STATUS_B0_MASK; + status = buf[0] & FTDI_STATUS_B0_MASK; if (status != priv->prev_status) { char diff_status = status ^ priv->prev_status; @@ -2092,7 +2092,7 @@ static int ftdi_process_packet(struct usb_serial_port *port, } /* save if the transmitter is empty or not */ - if (packet[1] & FTDI_RS_TEMT) + if (buf[1] & FTDI_RS_TEMT) priv->transmit_empty = 1; else priv->transmit_empty = 0; @@ -2106,29 +2106,29 @@ static int ftdi_process_packet(struct usb_serial_port *port, * data payload to avoid over-reporting. */ flag = TTY_NORMAL; - if (packet[1] & FTDI_RS_ERR_MASK) { + if (buf[1] & FTDI_RS_ERR_MASK) { /* Break takes precedence over parity, which takes precedence * over framing errors */ - if (packet[1] & FTDI_RS_BI) { + if (buf[1] & FTDI_RS_BI) { flag = TTY_BREAK; port->icount.brk++; usb_serial_handle_break(port); - } else if (packet[1] & FTDI_RS_PE) { + } else if (buf[1] & FTDI_RS_PE) { flag = TTY_PARITY; port->icount.parity++; - } else if (packet[1] & FTDI_RS_FE) { + } else if (buf[1] & FTDI_RS_FE) { flag = TTY_FRAME; port->icount.frame++; } /* Overrun is special, not associated with a char */ - if (packet[1] & FTDI_RS_OE) { + if (buf[1] & FTDI_RS_OE) { port->icount.overrun++; tty_insert_flip_char(&port->port, 0, TTY_OVERRUN); } } port->icount.rx += len; - ch = packet + 2; + ch = buf + 2; if (port->port.console && port->sysrq) { for (i = 0; i < len; i++, ch++) {