The driver was accessing its struct usb_device in its release()
callback without holding a reference. This would lead to a
use-after-free whenever the device was disconnected while the character
device was still open.
Fixes: fef526cae700 ("USB: legousbtower: remove custom debug macro")
Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 3.12
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/misc/legousbtower.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/misc/legousbtower.c b/drivers/usb/misc/legousbtower.c
index 44d6a3381804..9d4c52a7ebe0 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/misc/legousbtower.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/misc/legousbtower.c
@@ -296,6 +296,7 @@ static inline void tower_delete (struct lego_usb_tower *dev)
kfree (dev->read_buffer);
kfree (dev->interrupt_in_buffer);
kfree (dev->interrupt_out_buffer);
+ usb_put_dev(dev->udev);
kfree (dev);
}
@@ -810,7 +811,7 @@ static int tower_probe (struct usb_interface *interface, const struct usb_device
mutex_init(&dev->lock);
- dev->udev = udev;
+ dev->udev = usb_get_dev(udev);
dev->open_count = 0;
dev->disconnected = 0;
--
2.23.0
