This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled USB: spcp8x5: 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-spcp8x5-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 dbcea7615d8d7d58f6ff49d2c5568113f70effe9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johan Hovold <jhovold@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:21:24 +0100 Subject: USB: spcp8x5: fix use-after-free in TIOCMIWAIT From: Johan Hovold <jhovold@xxxxxxxxx> commit dbcea7615d8d7d58f6ff49d2c5568113f70effe9 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/spcp8x5.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/usb/serial/spcp8x5.c +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/spcp8x5.c @@ -149,7 +149,6 @@ enum spcp8x5_type { struct spcp8x5_private { spinlock_t lock; enum spcp8x5_type type; - wait_queue_head_t delta_msr_wait; u8 line_control; u8 line_status; }; @@ -179,7 +178,6 @@ static int spcp8x5_port_probe(struct usb return -ENOMEM; spin_lock_init(&priv->lock); - init_waitqueue_head(&priv->delta_msr_wait); priv->type = type; usb_set_serial_port_data(port , priv); @@ -476,7 +474,7 @@ static void spcp8x5_process_read_urb(str priv->line_status &= ~UART_STATE_TRANSIENT_MASK; spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags); /* wake up the wait for termios */ - wake_up_interruptible(&priv->delta_msr_wait); + wake_up_interruptible(&port->delta_msr_wait); if (!urb->actual_length) return; @@ -526,12 +524,15 @@ static int spcp8x5_wait_modem_info(struc while (1) { /* wake up in bulk read */ - 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; spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags); 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