This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled USB: symbolserial: Use usb_get_serial_port_data to the 3.14-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-symbolserial-use-usb_get_serial_port_data.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 951d3793bbfc0a441d791d820183aa3085c83ea9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philipp Hachtmann <hachti@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 17:31:46 +0200 Subject: USB: symbolserial: Use usb_get_serial_port_data From: Philipp Hachtmann <hachti@xxxxxxxxx> commit 951d3793bbfc0a441d791d820183aa3085c83ea9 upstream. The driver used usb_get_serial_data(port->serial) which compiled but resulted in a NULL pointer being returned (and subsequently used). I did not go deeper into this but I guess this is a regression. Signed-off-by: Philipp Hachtmann <hachti@xxxxxxxxx> Fixes: a85796ee5149 ("USB: symbolserial: move private-data allocation to port_probe") Acked-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/serial/symbolserial.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/usb/serial/symbolserial.c +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/symbolserial.c @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ exit: static int symbol_open(struct tty_struct *tty, struct usb_serial_port *port) { - struct symbol_private *priv = usb_get_serial_data(port->serial); + struct symbol_private *priv = usb_get_serial_port_data(port); unsigned long flags; int result = 0; @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ static void symbol_close(struct usb_seri static void symbol_throttle(struct tty_struct *tty) { struct usb_serial_port *port = tty->driver_data; - struct symbol_private *priv = usb_get_serial_data(port->serial); + struct symbol_private *priv = usb_get_serial_port_data(port); spin_lock_irq(&priv->lock); priv->throttled = true; @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ static void symbol_throttle(struct tty_s static void symbol_unthrottle(struct tty_struct *tty) { struct usb_serial_port *port = tty->driver_data; - struct symbol_private *priv = usb_get_serial_data(port->serial); + struct symbol_private *priv = usb_get_serial_port_data(port); int result; bool was_throttled; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hachti@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/usb-symbolserial-use-usb_get_serial_port_data.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