From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== commit 427c3a95e3e29e65f59d99aaf320d7506f3eed57 upstream. 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") Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- 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 d1b76b0a67df..5ed104787474 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c @@ -2465,8 +2465,12 @@ 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; } -- 2.12.0