This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    USB: mos7840: fix tiocmget error handling

to the 3.12-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-mos7840-fix-tiocmget-error-handling.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From a91ccd26e75235d86248d018fe3779732bcafd8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 17:01:09 +0200
Subject: USB: mos7840: fix tiocmget error handling

From: Johan Hovold <[email protected]>

commit a91ccd26e75235d86248d018fe3779732bcafd8d upstream.

Make sure to return errors from tiocmget rather than rely on
uninitialised stack data.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c
@@ -1532,7 +1532,11 @@ static int mos7840_tiocmget(struct tty_s
                return -ENODEV;
 
        status = mos7840_get_uart_reg(port, MODEM_STATUS_REGISTER, &msr);
+       if (status != 1)
+               return -EIO;
        status = mos7840_get_uart_reg(port, MODEM_CONTROL_REGISTER, &mcr);
+       if (status != 1)
+               return -EIO;
        result = ((mcr & MCR_DTR) ? TIOCM_DTR : 0)
            | ((mcr & MCR_RTS) ? TIOCM_RTS : 0)
            | ((mcr & MCR_LOOPBACK) ? TIOCM_LOOP : 0)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.12/usb-mos7840-fix-tiocmget-error-handling.patch
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