On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 10:47:33AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 02:41:16PM +0100, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> >The patch below does not apply to the 4.9-stable tree.
> >If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> >tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> >id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
> >
> >thanks,
> >
> >greg k-h
> >
> >------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
> >
> >From 3018dd3fa114b13261e9599ddb5656ef97a1fa17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 10:50:25 +0100
> >Subject: [PATCH] USB: serial: keyspan: handle unbound ports
> >
> >Check for NULL port data in the control URB completion handlers to avoid
> >dereferencing a NULL pointer in the unlikely case where a port device
> >isn't bound to a driver (e.g. after an allocation failure on port
> >probe()).
> >
> >Fixes: 0ca1268e109a ("USB Serial Keyspan: add support for USA-49WG & USA-28XG")
> >Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
> >Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Grabbing the prerequisite for the other USB patch also resolved the
> conflict here, now queued for 4.9 and 4.4.
Just curious; which prerequisite are referring to here? I can't seem to
understand why this one failed to apply to 4.9 in the first place as
there hasn't really been any changes to that code in the keyspan driver.
Johan
