Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 041/330] USB: serial: mos7840: fix probe error handling

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On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 09:56:21PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> [ Upstream commit 960fbd1ca584a5b4cd818255769769d42bfc6dbe ]
> 
> The driver would return success and leave the port structures
> half-initialised if any of the register accesses during probe fails.
> 
> This would specifically leave the port control urb unallocated,
> something which could trigger a NULL pointer dereference on interrupt
> events.
> 
> Fortunately the interrupt implementation is completely broken and has
> never even been enabled...
> 
> Note that the zero-length-enable register write used to set the zle-flag
> for all ports is moved to attach.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>

Please drop this from all stable queues. As the commit message and
missing stable-cc tag suggests, it's not needed.

Sasha, please stop sending AUTOSEL patches for usb-serial. I think this
the fourth time I ask you now.

Johan



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