This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled USB: serial: mos7840: fix control-message error handling to the 4.4-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-control-message-error-handling.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Thu Oct 5 10:49:14 CEST 2017 From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 14:56:18 +0100 Subject: USB: serial: mos7840: fix control-message error handling From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit cd8db057e93ddaacbec025b567490555d2bca280 ] Make sure to detect short transfers when reading a device register. The modem-status handling had sufficient error checks in place, but move handling of short transfers into the register accessor function itself for consistency. Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c | 19 +++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c @@ -285,9 +285,15 @@ static int mos7840_get_reg_sync(struct u ret = usb_control_msg(dev, usb_rcvctrlpipe(dev, 0), MCS_RDREQ, MCS_RD_RTYPE, 0, reg, buf, VENDOR_READ_LENGTH, MOS_WDR_TIMEOUT); + if (ret < VENDOR_READ_LENGTH) { + if (ret >= 0) + ret = -EIO; + goto out; + } + *val = buf[0]; dev_dbg(&port->dev, "%s offset is %x, return val %x\n", __func__, reg, *val); - +out: kfree(buf); return ret; } @@ -353,8 +359,13 @@ static int mos7840_get_uart_reg(struct u ret = usb_control_msg(dev, usb_rcvctrlpipe(dev, 0), MCS_RDREQ, MCS_RD_RTYPE, Wval, reg, buf, VENDOR_READ_LENGTH, MOS_WDR_TIMEOUT); + if (ret < VENDOR_READ_LENGTH) { + if (ret >= 0) + ret = -EIO; + goto out; + } *val = buf[0]; - +out: kfree(buf); return ret; } @@ -1490,10 +1501,10 @@ static int mos7840_tiocmget(struct tty_s return -ENODEV; status = mos7840_get_uart_reg(port, MODEM_STATUS_REGISTER, &msr); - if (status != 1) + if (status < 0) return -EIO; status = mos7840_get_uart_reg(port, MODEM_CONTROL_REGISTER, &mcr); - if (status != 1) + if (status < 0) return -EIO; result = ((mcr & MCR_DTR) ? TIOCM_DTR : 0) | ((mcr & MCR_RTS) ? TIOCM_RTS : 0) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johan@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/usb-serial-mos7720-fix-control-message-error-handling.patch queue-4.4/usb-serial-mos7840-fix-control-message-error-handling.patch