This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled USB: serial: ftdi_sio: fix modem-status error handling to my usb git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git in the usb-next branch. The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.) The patch will also be merged in the next major kernel release during the merge window. If you have any questions about this process, please let me know. >From 427c3a95e3e29e65f59d99aaf320d7506f3eed57 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 14:56:11 +0100 Subject: USB: serial: ftdi_sio: fix modem-status error handling Make sure to detect short responses when fetching the modem status in order to avoid parsing uninitialised buffer data and having bits of it leak to user space. Note that we still allow for short 1-byte responses. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c b/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c index 23d14b98ae2a..6dee20fc7e45 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c @@ -2428,8 +2428,12 @@ static int ftdi_get_modem_status(struct usb_serial_port *port, FTDI_SIO_GET_MODEM_STATUS_REQUEST_TYPE, 0, priv->interface, buf, len, WDR_TIMEOUT); - if (ret < 0) { + + /* NOTE: We allow short responses and handle that below. */ + if (ret < 1) { dev_err(&port->dev, "failed to get modem status: %d\n", ret); + if (ret >= 0) + ret = -EIO; ret = usb_translate_errors(ret); goto out; } -- 2.11.1 -- 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