Patch "cdc-acm: fix uninitialized variable" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

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

cdc-acm: fix uninitialized variable

to the 4.8-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:
cdc-acm-fix-uninitialized-variable.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 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: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 14:42:52 +0100
Subject: cdc-acm: fix uninitialized variable

From: Oliver Neukum <[email protected]>

commit 7309aa847ead3fa561663b16779a0dde8c64cc7c upstream.

variable struct usb_cdc_parsed_header h may be used uninitialized in acm_probe.

In kernel 4.8.

    /* handle quirks deadly to normal probing*/
    if (quirks == NO_UNION_NORMAL)

        ...

        goto skip_normal_probe;
    }

we bypass call to

    cdc_parse_cdc_header(&h, intf, buffer, buflen);

but later use h in

if (h.usb_cdc_country_functional_desc) { /* export the country data */

---
 drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

@@ -1173,6 +1173,8 @@ static int acm_probe(struct usb_interfac
 	if (quirks == IGNORE_DEVICE)
 		return -ENODEV;
 
+	memset(&h, 0x00, sizeof(struct usb_cdc_parsed_header));
+
 	num_rx_buf = (quirks == SINGLE_RX_URB) ? 1 : ACM_NR;
 
 	/* handle quirks deadly to normal probing*/

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

queue-4.8/cdc-acm-fix-uninitialized-variable.patch queue-4.8/usb-cdc-acm-fix-tiocmiwait.patch