This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled appledisplay: fix error handling in the scheduled work to my usb git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git in the usb-testing branch. The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.) The patch will be merged to the usb-next branch sometime soon, after it passes testing, and the merge window is open. If you have any questions about this process, please let me know. >From 91feb01596e5efc0cc922cc73f5583114dccf4d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2019 13:49:01 +0100 Subject: appledisplay: fix error handling in the scheduled work The work item can operate on 1. stale memory left over from the last transfer the actual length of the data transfered needs to be checked 2. memory already freed the error handling in appledisplay_probe() needs to cancel the work in that case Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+495dab1f175edc9c2f13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx> Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191106124902.7765-1-oneukum@xxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/misc/appledisplay.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/usb/misc/appledisplay.c b/drivers/usb/misc/appledisplay.c index ac92725458b5..ba1eaabc7796 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/misc/appledisplay.c +++ b/drivers/usb/misc/appledisplay.c @@ -164,7 +164,12 @@ static int appledisplay_bl_get_brightness(struct backlight_device *bd) 0, pdata->msgdata, 2, ACD_USB_TIMEOUT); - brightness = pdata->msgdata[1]; + if (retval < 2) { + if (retval >= 0) + retval = -EMSGSIZE; + } else { + brightness = pdata->msgdata[1]; + } mutex_unlock(&pdata->sysfslock); if (retval < 0) @@ -299,6 +304,7 @@ static int appledisplay_probe(struct usb_interface *iface, if (pdata) { if (pdata->urb) { usb_kill_urb(pdata->urb); + cancel_delayed_work_sync(&pdata->work); if (pdata->urbdata) usb_free_coherent(pdata->udev, ACD_URB_BUFFER_LEN, pdata->urbdata, pdata->urb->transfer_dma); -- 2.23.0