Patch "serdev: ttyport: fix NULL-deref on hangup" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

serdev: ttyport: fix NULL-deref on hangup

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
serdev-ttyport-fix-null-deref-on-hangup.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 15:30:55 +0100
Subject: serdev: ttyport: fix NULL-deref on hangup

From: Johan Hovold <[email protected]>

commit 8bcd4e6a8decac251d55c4377e2e67f052777ce0 upstream.

Make sure to use a properly refcounted tty_struct in write_wake up to avoid dereferencing a NULL-pointer when a port is being hung up.

---
 drivers/tty/serdev/serdev-ttyport.c |   11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -57,12 +57,19 @@ static void ttyport_write_wakeup(struct
 {
 	struct serdev_controller *ctrl = port->client_data;
 	struct serport *serport = serdev_controller_get_drvdata(ctrl);
+	struct tty_struct *tty;
 
-	if (test_and_clear_bit(TTY_DO_WRITE_WAKEUP, &port->tty->flags) &&
+	tty = tty_port_tty_get(port);
+	if (!tty)
+		return;
+
+	if (test_and_clear_bit(TTY_DO_WRITE_WAKEUP, &tty->flags) &&
 	    test_bit(SERPORT_ACTIVE, &serport->flags))
 		serdev_controller_write_wakeup(ctrl);
 
-	wake_up_interruptible_poll(&port->tty->write_wait, POLLOUT);
+	wake_up_interruptible_poll(&tty->write_wait, POLLOUT);
+
+	tty_kref_put(tty);
 }
 
 static const struct tty_port_client_operations client_ops = {

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.14/serdev-ttyport-fix-null-deref-on-hangup.patch queue-4.14/serdev-ttyport-fix-tty-locking-in-close.patch queue-4.14/serdev-ttyport-add-missing-receive_buf-sanity-checks.patch