The driver was accessing its struct usb_device in its release() callback without holding a reference. This would lead to a use-after-free whenever the device was disconnected while the character device was still open.
Fixes: 66d4bc30d128 ("USB: adutux: remove custom debug macro") Cc: stable stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.12 Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org --- drivers/usb/misc/adutux.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/misc/adutux.c b/drivers/usb/misc/adutux.c index f9efec719359..6f5edb9fc61e 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/misc/adutux.c +++ b/drivers/usb/misc/adutux.c @@ -149,6 +149,7 @@ static void adu_delete(struct adu_device *dev) kfree(dev->read_buffer_secondary); kfree(dev->interrupt_in_buffer); kfree(dev->interrupt_out_buffer); + usb_put_dev(dev->udev); kfree(dev); }
@@ -664,7 +665,7 @@ static int adu_probe(struct usb_interface *interface,
mutex_init(&dev->mtx); spin_lock_init(&dev->buflock); - dev->udev = udev; + dev->udev = usb_get_dev(udev); init_waitqueue_head(&dev->read_wait); init_waitqueue_head(&dev->write_wait);