This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled USB: pl2303: 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-pl2303-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 40509ca982c00c4b70fc00be887509feca0bff15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johan Hovold <jhovold@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:21:22 +0100 Subject: USB: pl2303: fix use-after-free in TIOCMIWAIT From: Johan Hovold <jhovold@xxxxxxxxx> commit 40509ca982c00c4b70fc00be887509feca0bff15 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/pl2303.c | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/usb/serial/pl2303.c +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/pl2303.c @@ -139,7 +139,6 @@ struct pl2303_serial_private { struct pl2303_private { spinlock_t lock; - wait_queue_head_t delta_msr_wait; u8 line_control; u8 line_status; }; @@ -233,7 +232,6 @@ static int pl2303_port_probe(struct usb_ return -ENOMEM; spin_lock_init(&priv->lock); - init_waitqueue_head(&priv->delta_msr_wait); usb_set_serial_port_data(port, priv); @@ -607,11 +605,14 @@ static int wait_modem_info(struct usb_se spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags); while (1) { - 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); @@ -719,7 +720,7 @@ static void pl2303_update_line_status(st spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags); if (priv->line_status & UART_BREAK_ERROR) usb_serial_handle_break(port); - wake_up_interruptible(&priv->delta_msr_wait); + wake_up_interruptible(&port->delta_msr_wait); tty = tty_port_tty_get(&port->port); if (!tty) @@ -784,7 +785,7 @@ static void pl2303_process_read_urb(stru line_status = priv->line_status; priv->line_status &= ~UART_STATE_TRANSIENT_MASK; spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags); - wake_up_interruptible(&priv->delta_msr_wait); + wake_up_interruptible(&port->delta_msr_wait); if (!urb->actual_length) return; 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