From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: serial: xr: fix NULL-deref on disconnect
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 11:20:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YDjLckoJ6q6JYwIV@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210226100826.18987-1-johan@kernel.org>
On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 11:08:26AM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> Claiming the sibling control interface is a bit more involved and
> specifically requires adding support to USB-serial core for managing
> either interface being unbound first, something which could otherwise
> lead to a NULL-pointer dereference.
>
> Similarly, additional infrastructure is also needed to handle suspend
> properly.
>
> Since the driver currently isn't actually using the control interface,
> we can defer this for now by simply not claiming the control interface.
>
> Fixes: c2d405aa86b4 ("USB: serial: add MaxLinear/Exar USB to Serial driver")
> Reported-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
> Cc: Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-26 10:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-26 10:08 [PATCH] USB: serial: xr: fix NULL-deref on disconnect Johan Hovold
2021-02-26 10:20 ` Greg KH [this message]
2021-02-26 10:54 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-03-01 9:18 ` Johan Hovold
2021-02-26 10:57 ` Manivannan Sadhasivam
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