This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
USB: ftdi_sio: fix problem when the manufacture is a NULL string
to my usb git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git
in the usb-next branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will also will be merged in the next major kernel release
during the merge window.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From 656d2b3964a9d0f9864d472f8dfa2dd7dd42e6c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:20:09 -0800
Subject: USB: ftdi_sio: fix problem when the manufacture is a NULL string
On some misconfigured ftdi_sio devices, if the manufacturer string is
NULL, the kernel will oops when the device is plugged in. This patch
fixes the problem.
Reported-by: Wojciech M Zabolotny <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Wojciech M Zabolotny <[email protected]>
Cc: stable <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c b/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c
index feafa85..9892626 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c
@@ -1769,7 +1769,8 @@ static int ftdi_8u2232c_probe(struct usb_serial *serial)
dbg("%s", __func__);
- if (strcmp(udev->manufacturer, "CALAO Systems") == 0)
+ if ((udev->manufacturer) &&
+ (strcmp(udev->manufacturer, "CALAO Systems") == 0))
return ftdi_jtag_probe(serial);
return 0;
--
1.7.9
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