This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tty: Fix GPF in flush_to_ldisc(), part 2 to the 4.4-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: tty-fix-gpf-in-flush_to_ldisc-part-2.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From f33798deecbd59a2955f40ac0ae2bc7dff54c069 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 20:36:12 -0800 Subject: tty: Fix GPF in flush_to_ldisc(), part 2 From: Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit f33798deecbd59a2955f40ac0ae2bc7dff54c069 upstream. commit 9ce119f318ba ("tty: Fix GPF in flush_to_ldisc()") fixed a GPF caused by a line discipline which does not define a receive_buf() method. However, the vt driver (and speakup driver also) pushes selection data directly to the line discipline receive_buf() method via tty_ldisc_receive_buf(). Fix the same problem in tty_ldisc_receive_buf(). Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/tty.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/include/linux/tty.h +++ b/include/linux/tty.h @@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ static inline int tty_ldisc_receive_buf( count = ld->ops->receive_buf2(ld->tty, p, f, count); else { count = min_t(int, count, ld->tty->receive_room); - if (count) + if (count && ld->ops->receive_buf) ld->ops->receive_buf(ld->tty, p, f, count); } return count; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/tty-fix-gpf-in-flush_to_ldisc-part-2.patch queue-4.4/8250-use-callbacks-to-access-uart_dll-uart_dlm.patch queue-4.4/net-irda-fix-use-after-free-in-irtty_open.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