This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled USB: serial: mos7840: fix another NULL-deref at open to the 4.9-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-mos7840-fix-another-null-deref-at-open.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 5182c2cf2a9bfb7f066ef0bdd2bb6330b94dd74e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 12:11:41 +0100 Subject: USB: serial: mos7840: fix another NULL-deref at open From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 5182c2cf2a9bfb7f066ef0bdd2bb6330b94dd74e upstream. Fix another NULL-pointer dereference at open should a malicious device lack an interrupt-in endpoint. Note that the driver has a broken check for an interrupt-in endpoint which means that an interrupt URB has never even been submitted. Fixes: 3f5429746d91 ("USB: Moschip 7840 USB-Serial Driver") 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/mos7840.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c @@ -1024,6 +1024,7 @@ static int mos7840_open(struct tty_struc * (can't set it up in mos7840_startup as the structures * * were not set up at that time.) */ if (port0->open_ports == 1) { + /* FIXME: Buffer never NULL, so URB is not submitted. */ if (serial->port[0]->interrupt_in_buffer == NULL) { /* set up interrupt urb */ usb_fill_int_urb(serial->port[0]->interrupt_in_urb, @@ -2119,7 +2120,8 @@ static int mos7840_calc_num_ports(struct static int mos7840_attach(struct usb_serial *serial) { if (serial->num_bulk_in < serial->num_ports || - serial->num_bulk_out < serial->num_ports) { + serial->num_bulk_out < serial->num_ports || + serial->num_interrupt_in < 1) { dev_err(&serial->interface->dev, "missing endpoints\n"); return -ENODEV; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johan@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/usb-serial-ftdi_sio-fix-modem-status-error-handling.patch queue-4.9/usb-serial-cp210x-add-new-ids-for-ge-bx50v3-boards.patch queue-4.9/usb-serial-ark3116-fix-register-accessor-error-handling.patch queue-4.9/usb-serial-digi_acceleport-fix-oob-data-sanity-check.patch queue-4.9/usb-serial-ftdi_sio-fix-line-status-over-reporting.patch queue-4.9/usb-serial-ftdi_sio-fix-extreme-low-latency-setting.patch queue-4.9/usb-serial-spcp8x5-fix-modem-status-handling.patch queue-4.9/usb-serial-opticon-fix-cts-retrieval-at-open.patch queue-4.9/usb-serial-mos7840-fix-another-null-deref-at-open.patch queue-4.9/usb-serial-console-fix-uninitialised-spinlock.patch