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

USB: chaoskey: fix use-after-free on release

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.

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From: Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2019 17:38:45 +0200 Subject: USB: chaoskey: fix use-after-free on release

The driver was accessing its struct usb_interface 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: 66e3e591891d ("usb: Add driver for Altus Metrum ChaosKey device (v2)") Cc: stable stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.1 Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191009153848.8664-3-johan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/usb/misc/chaoskey.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/misc/chaoskey.c b/drivers/usb/misc/chaoskey.c index cf5828ce927a..34e6cd6f40d3 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/misc/chaoskey.c +++ b/drivers/usb/misc/chaoskey.c @@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ static void chaoskey_free(struct chaoskey *dev) usb_free_urb(dev->urb); kfree(dev->name); kfree(dev->buf); + usb_put_intf(dev->interface); kfree(dev); } } @@ -145,6 +146,8 @@ static int chaoskey_probe(struct usb_interface *interface, if (dev == NULL) goto out;

+ dev->interface = usb_get_intf(interface); + dev->buf = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);

if (dev->buf == NULL) @@ -174,8 +177,6 @@ static int chaoskey_probe(struct usb_interface *interface, goto out; }

- dev->interface = interface; - dev->in_ep = in_ep;

if (le16_to_cpu(udev->descriptor.idVendor) != ALEA_VENDOR_ID)