The driver was issuing synchronous uninterruptible control requests
without using a timeout. This could lead to the driver hanging
on open() or tiocmset() due to a malfunctioning (or malicious) device
until the device is physically disconnected.
The USB upper limit of five seconds per request should be more than
enough.
Fixes: 309a057932ab ("USB: opticon: add rts and cts support")
Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 2.6.39
Cc: Martin Jansen <martin.jansen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
This was reported to me off-list to be an issue with some opticon
devices. Let's address the obvious bug while waiting for a bug report
to be sent to the list.
Johan
drivers/usb/serial/opticon.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/opticon.c b/drivers/usb/serial/opticon.c
index cb7aac9cd9e7..ed2b4e6dca38 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/opticon.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/opticon.c
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ static int send_control_msg(struct usb_serial_port *port, u8 requesttype,
retval = usb_control_msg(serial->dev, usb_sndctrlpipe(serial->dev, 0),
requesttype,
USB_DIR_OUT|USB_TYPE_VENDOR|USB_RECIP_INTERFACE,
- 0, 0, buffer, 1, 0);
+ 0, 0, buffer, 1, USB_CTRL_SET_TIMEOUT);
kfree(buffer);
if (retval < 0)
--
2.24.1
