3.16.35-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Oliver Neukum <oneu...@suse.com> commit 4e9a0b05257f29cf4b75f3209243ed71614d062e upstream. An attack using the lack of sanity checking in probe is known. This patch checks for the existence of a second port. CVE-2016-3136 Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneu...@suse.com> [johan: add error message ] Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <jo...@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> --- drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c @@ -376,14 +376,21 @@ static void mct_u232_msr_to_state(struct static int mct_u232_port_probe(struct usb_serial_port *port) { + struct usb_serial *serial = port->serial; struct mct_u232_private *priv; + /* check first to simplify error handling */ + if (!serial->port[1] || !serial->port[1]->interrupt_in_urb) { + dev_err(&port->dev, "expected endpoint missing\n"); + return -ENODEV; + } + priv = kzalloc(sizeof(*priv), GFP_KERNEL); if (!priv) return -ENOMEM; /* Use second interrupt-in endpoint for reading. */ - priv->read_urb = port->serial->port[1]->interrupt_in_urb; + priv->read_urb = serial->port[1]->interrupt_in_urb; priv->read_urb->context = port; spin_lock_init(&priv->lock);