Patch "USB: mct_u232: add sanity checking in probe" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

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

USB: mct_u232: add sanity checking in probe

to the 3.14-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:
usb-mct_u232-add-sanity-checking-in-probe.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

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

From: Oliver Neukum <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 12:04:24 -0400
Subject: USB: mct_u232: add sanity checking in probe

From: Oliver Neukum <[email protected]>

commit 4e9a0b05257f29cf4b75f3209243ed71614d062e upstream.

An attack using the lack of sanity checking in probe is known. This patch checks for the existence of a second port.

CVE-2016-3136

---
 drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c |    9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -376,14 +376,21 @@ static void mct_u232_msr_to_state(struct
 
 static int mct_u232_port_probe(struct usb_serial_port *port)
 {
+	struct usb_serial *serial = port->serial;
 	struct mct_u232_private *priv;
 
+	/* check first to simplify error handling */
+	if (!serial->port[1] || !serial->port[1]->interrupt_in_urb) {
+		dev_err(&port->dev, "expected endpoint missing\n");
+		return -ENODEV;
+	}
+
 	priv = kzalloc(sizeof(*priv), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!priv)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	/* Use second interrupt-in endpoint for reading. */
-	priv->read_urb = port->serial->port[1]->interrupt_in_urb;
+	priv->read_urb = serial->port[1]->interrupt_in_urb;
 	priv->read_urb->context = port;
 
 	spin_lock_init(&priv->lock);

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

queue-3.14/usb-cdc-acm-more-sanity-checking.patch queue-3.14/usb-mct_u232-add-sanity-checking-in-probe.patch queue-3.14/usb-digi_acceleport-do-sanity-checking-for-the-number-of-ports.patch queue-3.14/usb-cypress_m8-add-endpoint-sanity-check.patch queue-3.14/usb-retry-reset-if-a-device-times-out.patch queue-3.14/usb-hub-fix-a-typo-in-hub_port_init-leading-to-wrong-logic.patch queue-3.14/usb-usb_driver_claim_interface-add-sanity-checking.patch