From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.18 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== [ Upstream commit 4e9a0b05257f29cf4b75f3209243ed71614d062e ] An attack using the lack of sanity checking in probe is known. This patch checks for the existence of a second port. CVE-2016-3136 Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <ONeukum@xxxxxxxx> CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [johan: add error message ] Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c b/drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c index fd707d6..89726f7 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c @@ -376,14 +376,21 @@ static void mct_u232_msr_to_state(struct usb_serial_port *port, static int mct_u232_port_probe(struct usb_serial_port *port) { + struct usb_serial *serial = port->serial; struct mct_u232_private *priv; + /* check first to simplify error handling */ + if (!serial->port[1] || !serial->port[1]->interrupt_in_urb) { + dev_err(&port->dev, "expected endpoint missing\n"); + return -ENODEV; + } + priv = kzalloc(sizeof(*priv), GFP_KERNEL); if (!priv) return -ENOMEM; /* Use second interrupt-in endpoint for reading. */ - priv->read_urb = port->serial->port[1]->interrupt_in_urb; + priv->read_urb = serial->port[1]->interrupt_in_urb; priv->read_urb->context = port; spin_lock_init(&priv->lock); -- 2.5.0 -- 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