This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled USB: console: fix uninitialised ldisc semaphore to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: usb-console-fix-uninitialised-ldisc-semaphore.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From d269d4434c72ed0da3a9b1230c30da82c4918c63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 16:04:12 +0100 Subject: USB: console: fix uninitialised ldisc semaphore From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> commit d269d4434c72ed0da3a9b1230c30da82c4918c63 upstream. The USB console currently allocates a temporary fake tty which is used to pass terminal settings to the underlying serial driver. The tty struct is not fully initialised, something which can lead to a lockdep warning (or worse) if a serial driver tries to acquire a line-discipline reference: usbserial: USB Serial support registered for pl2303 pl2303 1-2.1:1.0: pl2303 converter detected usb 1-2.1: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0 INFO: trying to register non-static key. the code is fine but needs lockdep annotation. turning off the locking correctness validator. CPU: 0 PID: 68 Comm: udevd Tainted: G W 3.18.0-rc5 #10 [<c0016f04>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c0013978>] (show_stack+0x20/0x24) [<c0013978>] (show_stack) from [<c0449794>] (dump_stack+0x24/0x28) [<c0449794>] (dump_stack) from [<c006f730>] (__lock_acquire+0x1e50/0x2004) [<c006f730>] (__lock_acquire) from [<c0070128>] (lock_acquire+0xe4/0x18c) [<c0070128>] (lock_acquire) from [<c027c6f8>] (ldsem_down_read_trylock+0x78/0x90) [<c027c6f8>] (ldsem_down_read_trylock) from [<c027a1cc>] (tty_ldisc_ref+0x24/0x58) [<c027a1cc>] (tty_ldisc_ref) from [<c0340760>] (usb_serial_handle_dcd_change+0x48/0xe8) [<c0340760>] (usb_serial_handle_dcd_change) from [<bf000484>] (pl2303_read_int_callback+0x210/0x220 [pl2303]) [<bf000484>] (pl2303_read_int_callback [pl2303]) from [<c031624c>] (__usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x80/0x140) [<c031624c>] (__usb_hcd_giveback_urb) from [<c0316fc0>] (usb_giveback_urb_bh+0x98/0xd4) [<c0316fc0>] (usb_giveback_urb_bh) from [<c0042e44>] (tasklet_hi_action+0x9c/0x108) [<c0042e44>] (tasklet_hi_action) from [<c0042380>] (__do_softirq+0x148/0x42c) [<c0042380>] (__do_softirq) from [<c00429cc>] (irq_exit+0xd8/0x114) [<c00429cc>] (irq_exit) from [<c007ae58>] (__handle_domain_irq+0x84/0xdc) [<c007ae58>] (__handle_domain_irq) from [<c000879c>] (omap_intc_handle_irq+0xd8/0xe0) [<c000879c>] (omap_intc_handle_irq) from [<c0014544>] (__irq_svc+0x44/0x7c) Exception stack(0xdf4e7f08 to 0xdf4e7f50) 7f00: debc0b80 df4e7f5c 00000000 00000000 debc0b80 be8da96c 7f20: 00000000 00000128 c000fc84 df4e6000 00000000 df4e7f94 00000004 df4e7f50 7f40: c038ebc0 c038d74c 600f0013 ffffffff [<c0014544>] (__irq_svc) from [<c038d74c>] (___sys_sendmsg.part.29+0x0/0x2e0) [<c038d74c>] (___sys_sendmsg.part.29) from [<c038ec08>] (SyS_sendmsg+0x18/0x1c) [<c038ec08>] (SyS_sendmsg) from [<c000fa00>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x48) console [ttyUSB0] enabled Fixes: 36697529b5bb ("tty: Replace ldisc locking with ldisc_sem") Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/serial/console.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/usb/serial/console.c +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/console.c @@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ static int usb_console_setup(struct cons tty_port_tty_set(&port->port, tty); tty->driver = usb_serial_tty_driver; tty->index = co->index; + init_ldsem(&tty->ldisc_sem); if (tty_init_termios(tty)) { retval = -ENOMEM; goto free_tty; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johan@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/usb-console-fix-potential-use-after-free.patch queue-3.14/usb-cp210x-add-ids-for-cel-usb-sticks-and-meshworks-devices.patch queue-3.14/usb-keyspan-fix-null-deref-at-probe.patch queue-3.14/usb-cp210x-fix-id-for-production-cel-meshconnect-usb-stick.patch queue-3.14/gpio-fix-memory-and-reference-leaks-in-gpiochip_add-error-path.patch queue-3.14/usb-console-fix-uninitialised-ldisc-semaphore.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html