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Message-Id: <20100313002712.906489368@kvm.kroah.org>
Date:	Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:27:01 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Elina Pasheva <epasheva@...rrawireless.com>
Subject: [088/145] USB: serial: sierra driver indat_callback fix

2.6.32-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

----------------
From: Elina Pasheva <epasheva@...rrawireless.com>

commit b87c6e86dac1bb5222279cc8ff7e09529e1c4ed9 upstream.

A crash has been reported with sierra driver on disconnect with
Ubuntu/Lucid distribution based on kernel-2.6.32.
The cause of the crash was determined as "NULL tty pointer was being
referenced" and the NULL pointer was passed by sierra_indat_callback().

This patch modifies sierra_indat_callback() function to check for NULL
tty structure pointer. This modification prevents a crash from happening
when the device is disconnected.

This patch fixes the bug reported in Launchpad:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/511157

Signed-off-by: Elina Pasheva <epasheva@...rrawireless.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 drivers/usb/serial/sierra.c |   17 ++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/usb/serial/sierra.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/sierra.c
@@ -567,14 +567,17 @@ static void sierra_indat_callback(struct
 	} else {
 		if (urb->actual_length) {
 			tty = tty_port_tty_get(&port->port);
+			if (tty) {
+				tty_buffer_request_room(tty,
+					urb->actual_length);
+				tty_insert_flip_string(tty, data,
+					urb->actual_length);
+				tty_flip_buffer_push(tty);
 
-			tty_buffer_request_room(tty, urb->actual_length);
-			tty_insert_flip_string(tty, data, urb->actual_length);
-			tty_flip_buffer_push(tty);
-
-			tty_kref_put(tty);
-			usb_serial_debug_data(debug, &port->dev, __func__,
-				urb->actual_length, data);
+				tty_kref_put(tty);
+				usb_serial_debug_data(debug, &port->dev,
+					__func__, urb->actual_length, data);
+			}
 		} else {
 			dev_dbg(&port->dev, "%s: empty read urb"
 				" received\n", __func__);


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