patch "USB: serial: ftdi_sio: fix setting latency for unprivileged users" added to usb-linus

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

USB: serial: ftdi_sio: fix setting latency for unprivileged users

to my usb git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git
in the usb-linus branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

From: Anthony Mallet <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 17:30:16 +0200
Subject: USB: serial: ftdi_sio: fix setting latency for unprivileged users

Commit 557aaa7ffab6 ("ft232: support the ASYNC_LOW_LATENCY flag") enables unprivileged users to set the FTDI latency timer, but there was a logic flaw that skipped sending the corresponding USB control message to the device.

Specifically, the device latency timer would not be updated until next open, something which was later also inadvertently broken by commit c19db4c9e49a ("USB: ftdi_sio: set device latency timeout at port probe").

A recent commit c6dce2626606 ("USB: serial: ftdi_sio: fix extreme low-latency setting") disabled the low-latency mode by default so we now need this fix to allow unprivileged users to again enable it.

---
 drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

index d38780fa8788..0e634c11abbf 100644
@@ -1527,9 +1527,9 @@ static int set_serial_info(struct tty_struct *tty,
 					(new_serial.flags & ASYNC_FLAGS));
 	priv->custom_divisor = new_serial.custom_divisor;
 
+check_and_exit:
 	write_latency_timer(port);
 
-check_and_exit:
 	if ((old_priv.flags & ASYNC_SPD_MASK) !=
 	     (priv->flags & ASYNC_SPD_MASK)) {
 		if ((priv->flags & ASYNC_SPD_MASK) == ASYNC_SPD_HI)

2.13.0