Re: [PATCH] gpib: agilent_82357a: don't check a NULL serial string

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2026 at 07:49:12AM -0400, Joe Simmons-Talbott wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2026 at 11:38:49AM +0100, Dave Penkler wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 26, 2026 at 09:12:56AM -0400, Joe Simmons-Talbott wrote:
> > > The agilent_82357a driver uses the USB device serial string for device
> > > matching but does not verify that the string exists before passing it
> > > to strcmp().
> > > 
> > > Verify that the device has a serial number before accessing it to avoid
> > > triggering a NULL-pointer dereference with devices that don't provide
> > > a serial number (iSerialNumber = 0).
> > > 
> > > Similar to commit aa79f996eb41 ("i2c: cp2615: fix serial string
> > > NULL-deref at probe").
> > > 
> > > Found by Claude:sonnet-4.5
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Joe Simmons-Talbott <joest@redhat.com>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/gpib/agilent_82357a/agilent_82357a.c | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpib/agilent_82357a/agilent_82357a.c b/drivers/gpib/agilent_82357a/agilent_82357a.c
> > > index e1349afbf933..da046ea40f11 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpib/agilent_82357a/agilent_82357a.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpib/agilent_82357a/agilent_82357a.c
> > > @@ -1298,7 +1298,7 @@ static inline int agilent_82357a_device_match(struct usb_interface *interface,
> > >  	if (gpib_match_device_path(&interface->dev, config->device_path) == 0)
> > >  		return 0;
> > >  	if (config->serial_number &&
> > > -	    strcmp(usbdev->serial, config->serial_number) != 0)
> > > +	    (!usbdev->serial || strcmp(usbdev->serial, config->serial_number) != 0))
> > >  		return 0;
> > >  
> > >  	return 1;
> > > -- 
> > > 2.53.0
> > > 
> > Acked-by: Dave Penkler <dpenkler@gmail.com>
> > 
> 
> +Greg
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Sorry I neglected to include you on the original patch submission.  Are
> you able to either take this patch or point me to the proper person?

I can take it after -rc1 is out, thanks.

greg k-h