This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled usb: chipidea: debug: check before accessing ci_role 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-chipidea-debug-check-before-accessing-ci_role.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 0340ff83cd4475261e7474033a381bc125b45244 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Thalmeier <michael.thalmeier@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 16:14:14 +0200 Subject: usb: chipidea: debug: check before accessing ci_role From: Michael Thalmeier <michael.thalmeier@xxxxxxx> commit 0340ff83cd4475261e7474033a381bc125b45244 upstream. ci_role BUGs when the role is >= CI_ROLE_END. Signed-off-by: Michael Thalmeier <michael.thalmeier@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Chen <peter.chen@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/chipidea/debug.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/usb/chipidea/debug.c +++ b/drivers/usb/chipidea/debug.c @@ -294,7 +294,8 @@ static int ci_role_show(struct seq_file { struct ci_hdrc *ci = s->private; - seq_printf(s, "%s\n", ci_role(ci)->name); + if (ci->role != CI_ROLE_END) + seq_printf(s, "%s\n", ci_role(ci)->name); return 0; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from michael.thalmeier@xxxxxxx are queue-4.9/usb-chipidea-debug-check-before-accessing-ci_role.patch