[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "USB: serial: fix potential use-after-free after failed probe" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

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

    USB: serial: fix potential use-after-free after failed probe

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt9.

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

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 277385e00dc07d7933900646cdd372ff45448fdf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Hovold <johan at kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 10:34:50 +0700
Subject: USB: serial: fix potential use-after-free after failed probe

commit 07fdfc5e9f1c966be8722e8fa927e5ea140df5ce upstream.

Fix return value in probe error path, which could end up returning
success (0) on errors. This could in turn lead to use-after-free or
double free (e.g. in port_remove) when the port device is removed.

Fixes: c706ebdfc895 ("USB: usb-serial: call port_probe and port_remove
at the right times")
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan at kernel.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg at kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/usb/serial/bus.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/bus.c b/drivers/usb/serial/bus.c
index 9374bd2aba20..5d8d86666b90 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/bus.c
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ static int usb_serial_device_probe(struct device *dev)
 	retval = device_create_file(dev, &dev_attr_port_number);
 	if (retval) {
 		if (driver->port_remove)
-			retval = driver->port_remove(port);
+			driver->port_remove(port);
 		goto exit_with_autopm;
 	}