This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled USB: ch341: 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-ch341-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 fa1e11d5231c001c80a479160b5832933c5d35fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johan Hovold <jhovold@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:21:12 +0100 Subject: USB: ch341: fix use-after-free in TIOCMIWAIT From: Johan Hovold <jhovold@xxxxxxxxx> commit fa1e11d5231c001c80a479160b5832933c5d35fb 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/ch341.c | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/usb/serial/ch341.c +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/ch341.c @@ -80,7 +80,6 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(usb, id_table); struct ch341_private { spinlock_t lock; /* access lock */ - wait_queue_head_t delta_msr_wait; /* wait queue for modem status */ unsigned baud_rate; /* set baud rate */ u8 line_control; /* set line control value RTS/DTR */ u8 line_status; /* active status of modem control inputs */ @@ -252,7 +251,6 @@ static int ch341_port_probe(struct usb_s return -ENOMEM; spin_lock_init(&priv->lock); - init_waitqueue_head(&priv->delta_msr_wait); priv->baud_rate = DEFAULT_BAUD_RATE; priv->line_control = CH341_BIT_RTS | CH341_BIT_DTR; @@ -298,7 +296,7 @@ static void ch341_dtr_rts(struct usb_ser priv->line_control &= ~(CH341_BIT_RTS | CH341_BIT_DTR); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags); ch341_set_handshake(port->serial->dev, priv->line_control); - wake_up_interruptible(&priv->delta_msr_wait); + wake_up_interruptible(&port->delta_msr_wait); } static void ch341_close(struct usb_serial_port *port) @@ -491,7 +489,7 @@ static void ch341_read_int_callback(stru tty_kref_put(tty); } - wake_up_interruptible(&priv->delta_msr_wait); + wake_up_interruptible(&port->delta_msr_wait); } exit: @@ -517,11 +515,14 @@ static int wait_modem_info(struct usb_se spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags); while (!multi_change) { - 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; + spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->lock, flags); status = priv->line_status; multi_change = priv->multi_status_change; 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