This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled USB: serial: ark3116: fix register-accessor error handling to the 4.10-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-serial-ark3116-fix-register-accessor-error-handling.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 9fef37d7cf170522fb354d6d0ea6de09b9b16678 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 14:56:09 +0100 Subject: USB: serial: ark3116: fix register-accessor error handling From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 9fef37d7cf170522fb354d6d0ea6de09b9b16678 upstream. The current implementation failed to detect short transfers, something which could lead to bits of the uninitialised heap transfer buffer leaking to user space. Fixes: 149fc791a452 ("USB: ark3116: Setup some basic infrastructure for new ark3116 driver.") Fixes: f4c1e8d597d1 ("USB: ark3116: Make existing functions 16450-aware and add close and release functions.") Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/serial/ark3116.c | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/usb/serial/ark3116.c +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/ark3116.c @@ -99,10 +99,17 @@ static int ark3116_read_reg(struct usb_s usb_rcvctrlpipe(serial->dev, 0), 0xfe, 0xc0, 0, reg, buf, 1, ARK_TIMEOUT); - if (result < 0) + if (result < 1) { + dev_err(&serial->interface->dev, + "failed to read register %u: %d\n", + reg, result); + if (result >= 0) + result = -EIO; + return result; - else - return buf[0]; + } + + return buf[0]; } static inline int calc_divisor(int bps) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johan@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.10/usb-serial-ftdi_sio-fix-modem-status-error-handling.patch queue-4.10/usb-serial-cp210x-add-new-ids-for-ge-bx50v3-boards.patch queue-4.10/usb-serial-ark3116-fix-register-accessor-error-handling.patch queue-4.10/usb-serial-digi_acceleport-fix-oob-data-sanity-check.patch queue-4.10/usb-serial-ftdi_sio-fix-line-status-over-reporting.patch queue-4.10/usb-serial-ftdi_sio-fix-extreme-low-latency-setting.patch queue-4.10/usb-serial-spcp8x5-fix-modem-status-handling.patch queue-4.10/usb-serial-opticon-fix-cts-retrieval-at-open.patch queue-4.10/usb-serial-mos7840-fix-another-null-deref-at-open.patch queue-4.10/usb-serial-console-fix-uninitialised-spinlock.patch