[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "USB: cypress_m8: fix use-after-free in TIOCMIWAIT" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Mar 25 18:02:57 UTC 2013


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    USB: cypress_m8: fix use-after-free in TIOCMIWAIT

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 768fb06db2b64a7a0f74b3a3019d93d3be9d3876 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Hovold <jhovold at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:21:13 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] USB: cypress_m8: fix use-after-free in TIOCMIWAIT

commit 356050d8b1e526db093e9d2c78daf49d6bf418e3 upstream.

Use the port wait queue and make sure to check the serial disconnected
flag before accessing private port data after waking up.

This is is needed as the private port data (including the wait queue
itself) can be gone when waking up after a disconnect.

Also remove bogus test for private data pointer being NULL as it is
never assigned in the loop.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/usb/serial/cypress_m8.c | 14 ++++++++------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/cypress_m8.c b/drivers/usb/serial/cypress_m8.c
index b78c34e..dec5b2f 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/cypress_m8.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/cypress_m8.c
@@ -116,7 +116,6 @@ struct cypress_private {
 	int baud_rate;			   /* stores current baud rate in
 					      integer form */
 	int isthrottled;		   /* if throttled, discard reads */
-	wait_queue_head_t delta_msr_wait;  /* used for TIOCMIWAIT */
 	char prev_status, diff_status;	   /* used for TIOCMIWAIT */
 	/* we pass a pointer to this as the argument sent to
 	   cypress_set_termios old_termios */
@@ -452,7 +451,6 @@ static int generic_startup(struct usb_serial *serial)
 		kfree(priv);
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
-	init_waitqueue_head(&priv->delta_msr_wait);

 	usb_reset_configuration(serial->dev);

@@ -872,12 +870,16 @@ static int cypress_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty,
 	switch (cmd) {
 	/* This code comes from drivers/char/serial.c and ftdi_sio.c */
 	case TIOCMIWAIT:
-		while (priv != NULL) {
-			interruptible_sleep_on(&priv->delta_msr_wait);
+		for (;;) {
+			interruptible_sleep_on(&port->delta_msr_wait);
 			/* see if a signal did it */
 			if (signal_pending(current))
 				return -ERESTARTSYS;
-			else {
+
+			if (port->serial->disconnected)
+				return -EIO;
+
+			{
 				char diff = priv->diff_status;
 				if (diff == 0)
 					return -EIO; /* no change => error */
@@ -1193,7 +1195,7 @@ static void cypress_read_int_callback(struct urb *urb)
 	if (priv->current_status != priv->prev_status) {
 		priv->diff_status |= priv->current_status ^
 			priv->prev_status;
-		wake_up_interruptible(&priv->delta_msr_wait);
+		wake_up_interruptible(&port->delta_msr_wait);
 		priv->prev_status = priv->current_status;
 	}
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags);
--
1.8.1.2





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