This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled USB: ark3116: fix use-after-free in TIOCMIWAIT to the 3.8-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-ark3116-fix-use-after-free-in-tiocmiwait.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 5018860321dc7a9e50a75d5f319bc981298fb5b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johan Hovold <jhovold@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:21:11 +0100 Subject: USB: ark3116: fix use-after-free in TIOCMIWAIT From: Johan Hovold <jhovold@xxxxxxxxx> commit 5018860321dc7a9e50a75d5f319bc981298fb5b7 upstream. Use the port wait queue and make sure to check the serial disconnected flag before accessing private port data after waking up. This is is needed as the private port data (including the wait queue itself) can be gone when waking up after a disconnect. Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/serial/ark3116.c | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/usb/serial/ark3116.c +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/ark3116.c @@ -62,7 +62,6 @@ static int is_irda(struct usb_serial *se } struct ark3116_private { - wait_queue_head_t delta_msr_wait; struct async_icount icount; int irda; /* 1 for irda device */ @@ -146,7 +145,6 @@ static int ark3116_port_probe(struct usb if (!priv) return -ENOMEM; - init_waitqueue_head(&priv->delta_msr_wait); mutex_init(&priv->hw_lock); spin_lock_init(&priv->status_lock); @@ -456,10 +454,14 @@ static int ark3116_ioctl(struct tty_stru case TIOCMIWAIT: for (;;) { struct async_icount prev = priv->icount; - interruptible_sleep_on(&priv->delta_msr_wait); + interruptible_sleep_on(&port->delta_msr_wait); /* see if a signal did it */ if (signal_pending(current)) return -ERESTARTSYS; + + if (port->serial->disconnected) + return -EIO; + if ((prev.rng == priv->icount.rng) && (prev.dsr == priv->icount.dsr) && (prev.dcd == priv->icount.dcd) && @@ -580,7 +582,7 @@ static void ark3116_update_msr(struct us priv->icount.dcd++; if (msr & UART_MSR_TERI) priv->icount.rng++; - wake_up_interruptible(&priv->delta_msr_wait); + wake_up_interruptible(&port->delta_msr_wait); } } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jhovold@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.8/usb-quatech2-fix-use-after-free-in-tiocmiwait.patch queue-3.8/usb-ark3116-fix-use-after-free-in-tiocmiwait.patch queue-3.8/usb-cypress_m8-fix-use-after-free-in-tiocmiwait.patch queue-3.8/usb-pl2303-fix-use-after-free-in-tiocmiwait.patch queue-3.8/usb-io_edgeport-fix-use-after-free-in-tiocmiwait.patch queue-3.8/usb-ch341-fix-use-after-free-in-tiocmiwait.patch queue-3.8/usb-mos7840-fix-broken-tiocmiwait.patch queue-3.8/usb-spcp8x5-fix-use-after-free-in-tiocmiwait.patch queue-3.8/usb-ti_usb_3410_5052-fix-use-after-free-in-tiocmiwait.patch queue-3.8/usb-serial-fix-hang-when-opening-port.patch queue-3.8/usb-f81232-fix-use-after-free-in-tiocmiwait.patch queue-3.8/usb-mct_u232-fix-use-after-free-in-tiocmiwait.patch queue-3.8/usb-oti6858-fix-use-after-free-in-tiocmiwait.patch queue-3.8/usb-ftdi_sio-fix-use-after-free-in-tiocmiwait.patch queue-3.8/usb-serial-add-modem-status-change-wait-queue.patch queue-3.8/usb-io_ti-fix-use-after-free-in-tiocmiwait.patch queue-3.8/usb-ssu100-fix-use-after-free-in-tiocmiwait.patch queue-3.8/usb-mos7840-fix-use-after-free-in-tiocmiwait.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html