From: Johan Hovold Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 10:56:27 +0000 (+0200) Subject: USB: serial: fix potential NULL-dereference at probe X-Git-Tag: v4.8.7~88 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e8bf726705bd482371f5ba94274e19237717e1a1;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git USB: serial: fix potential NULL-dereference at probe commit 126d26f66d9890a69158812a6caa248c05359daa upstream. Make sure we have at least one port before attempting to register a console. Currently, at least one driver binds to a "dummy" interface and requests zero ports for it. Should such an interface also lack endpoints, we get a NULL-deref during probe. Fixes: e5b1e2062e05 ("USB: serial: make minor allocation dynamic") Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c b/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c index d213cf44a7e45..4a037b4a79cf3 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c @@ -1078,7 +1078,8 @@ static int usb_serial_probe(struct usb_interface *interface, serial->disconnected = 0; - usb_serial_console_init(serial->port[0]->minor); + if (num_ports > 0) + usb_serial_console_init(serial->port[0]->minor); exit: module_put(type->driver.owner); return 0;