[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "usb: xhci: fix wild pointers in xhci_mem_cleanup" has been added to the 3.19.y-ckt tree
Kamal Mostafa
kamal at canonical.com
Tue Apr 26 19:54:06 UTC 2016
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
usb: xhci: fix wild pointers in xhci_mem_cleanup
to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree
which can be found at:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue
This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt20.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Kamal
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>From 5b7d397ce38f71a38b96160dc8d6443cbf6489a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu at linux.intel.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 16:25:09 +0300
Subject: usb: xhci: fix wild pointers in xhci_mem_cleanup
commit 71504062a7c34838c3fccd92c447f399d3cb5797 upstream.
This patch fixes some wild pointers produced by xhci_mem_cleanup.
These wild pointers will cause system crash if xhci_mem_cleanup()
is called twice.
Reported-and-tested-by: Pengcheng Li <lpc.li at hisilicon.com>
Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu at linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman at linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c b/drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c
index 4d45551..00e9527 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/host/xhci-mem.c
@@ -1882,6 +1882,12 @@ no_bw:
kfree(xhci->rh_bw);
kfree(xhci->ext_caps);
+ xhci->usb2_ports = NULL;
+ xhci->usb3_ports = NULL;
+ xhci->port_array = NULL;
+ xhci->rh_bw = NULL;
+ xhci->ext_caps = NULL;
+
xhci->page_size = 0;
xhci->page_shift = 0;
xhci->bus_state[0].bus_suspended = 0;
--
2.7.4
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