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SubjectRe: ftdi_sio BUG: NULL pointer dereference
On 06/02/2014 01:46 PM, Johan Hovold wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 01:11:37PM -0400, Mike Remski wrote:
>> On 06/02/2014 12:49 PM, Johan Hovold wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 12:24:44PM -0400, Mike Remski wrote:
>>>> On 06/02/2014 12:20 PM, Johan Hovold wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 12:02:40PM -0400, Mike Remski wrote:
>>>>>> On 06/02/2014 11:40 AM, Johan Hovold wrote:
>>>>>>> [ Please avoid top-posting. ]
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 11:16:11AM -0400, Mike Remski wrote:
>>>>> The third interface lacks endpoints and crashes the ftdi_sio driver.
>>>>> This shouldn't happen (even if you're forcing the wrong driver to bind),
>>>>> so I'll fix it up if still broken in v3.15-rc.
>>>>>
>>>> Johan,
>>>> Thanks again. Yes, the device does indeed have an FTDI embedded in it;
>>>> they've programmed in their own ids. They supply a Windows driver for
>>>> it, but that doesn't do me any good. :)
>>> Not just their own ID's it seems.
>>>
>>> Have you tried just using the cdc-acm driver? The ports should up as
>>> /dev/ttyACMx instead of ttyUSBx.
>>>
>> Not yet, next on the list.
> You really should try this before anything else. :)
>
>> I'm suspecting that bNumEndpoints == 0 is causing endpoint[1].desc to
>> stay at NULL (line 1567 in 3.1.4.5 source), so by the time it gets used
>> later on, I'm hitting the NULL dereference.
> Yeah, the code is obviously broken (also in v3.15-rc). It should
> probably work to just return from ftdi_set_max_packet_size if
> num_endpoints is 0 if you want to try that (or you can use your ?:
> construct), but I should be able to fix this up properly on Wednesday.
>
> Thanks,
> Johan

Yep, trying to get the modalias correct so the cdc_acm driver recognizes
and loads for the device in question.

Appreciate your help.

m

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