3.16.44-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ 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: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- 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)