patch "USB: serial: fix potential NULL-dereference at probe" added to usb-linus

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    USB: serial: fix potential NULL-dereference at probe

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-linus 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 hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.


>From 126d26f66d9890a69158812a6caa248c05359daa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 12:56:27 +0200
Subject: USB: serial: fix potential NULL-dereference at probe

Make sure we have at least one port before attempting to register a
console.

Currently, at least one driver binds to a "dummy" interface and requests
zero ports for it. Should such an interface also lack endpoints, we get
a NULL-deref during probe.

Fixes: e5b1e2062e05 ("USB: serial: make minor allocation dynamic")
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>	# 3.11
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c b/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c
index d213cf44a7e4..4a037b4a79cf 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c
@@ -1078,7 +1078,8 @@ static int usb_serial_probe(struct usb_interface *interface,
 
 	serial->disconnected = 0;
 
-	usb_serial_console_init(serial->port[0]->minor);
+	if (num_ports > 0)
+		usb_serial_console_init(serial->port[0]->minor);
 exit:
 	module_put(type->driver.owner);
 	return 0;
-- 
2.10.1