This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: cdc_ether: fix divide by 0 on bad descriptors 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: net-cdc_ether-fix-divide-by-0-on-bad-descriptors.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 Sun Nov 19 11:12:05 CET 2017 From: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@xxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 15:37:22 +0100 Subject: net: cdc_ether: fix divide by 0 on bad descriptors From: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@xxxxxxx> commit 2cb80187ba065d7decad7c6614e35e07aec8a974 upstream. Setting dev->hard_mtu to 0 will cause a divide error in usbnet_probe. Protect against devices with bogus CDC Ethernet functional descriptors by ignoring a zero wMaxSegmentSize. Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/usb/cdc_ether.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ether.c +++ b/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ether.c @@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ skip: goto bad_desc; } - if (header.usb_cdc_ether_desc) { + if (header.usb_cdc_ether_desc && info->ether->wMaxSegmentSize) { dev->hard_mtu = le16_to_cpu(info->ether->wMaxSegmentSize); /* because of Zaurus, we may be ignoring the host * side link address we were given. Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bjorn@xxxxxxx are queue-4.4/net-cdc_ether-fix-divide-by-0-on-bad-descriptors.patch queue-4.4/net-qmi_wwan-fix-divide-by-0-on-bad-descriptors.patch