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SubjectRe: [PATCH 090/173] USB: serial/kobil_sct, fix potential tty NULL dereference
On 04/26/2011 09:53 PM, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:07:07PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>> On 04/25/2011 10:04 PM, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>>> 2.6.27.59-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let
>>> us know.
>>>
>>> ------------------
>>>
>>> From: Jiri Slaby<jslaby@suse.cz>
>>>
>>> commit 6960f40a954619857e7095a6179eef896f297077 upstream.
>>>
>>> Make sure that we check the return value of tty_port_tty_get.
>>> Sometimes it may return NULL and we later dereference that.
>>>
>>> The only place here is in kobil_read_int_callback, so fix it.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby<jslaby@suse.cz>
>>> Cc: Alan Cox<alan@linux.intel.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman<gregkh@suse.de>
>>>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/usb/serial/kobil_sct.c | 2 +-
>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> --- a/drivers/usb/serial/kobil_sct.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/kobil_sct.c
>>> @@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ static void kobil_read_int_callback(stru
>>> }
>>>
>>> tty = port->port.tty;
>>> - if (urb->actual_length) {
>>> + if (tty&& urb->actual_length) {
>>
>> Ok, but this doesn't fix the bug (the URB should be killed or something
>> similar in that kernel), it only makes the window smaller.
>
> OK I get it now, it requires patch 4a90f09b which is quite not some
> suitable material for -longterm.

Yeah and perhaps some other changes (like adding hangup support).

> Do you think it's better to completely remove this patch than making
> one think the risk of bug is gone while it is not ? Unless we find
> something more reliable, I'd rather drop the patch.

To be honest I don't know what's better :). Maybe I would incline to the
drop-it side, but leaving up to you.

thanks,
--
js
suse labs


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