linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] USB driver patches for 4.6-rc1

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Date:	Fri, 18 Mar 2016 16:17:03 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Nicolai Stange <nicstange@...il.com>,
	Peter Chen <peter.chen@...escale.com>,
	Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@...gutronix.de>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	USB list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] USB driver patches for 4.6-rc1

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 04:09:50PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, people did report issues with that yesterday, and I queued up a
> > patch for it, it's attached below, but I didn't think it would cause any
> > issues with non-OF systems either.  I wanted to give it a few days
> > testing in linux-next before sending it to you, but can do so now if you
> > want.
> 
> Ok, that fixes it for me. Yeah, I'll need this in order to continue
> merging, I don't merge more stuff on top of known-bad kernels.
> 
> I can apply the patch directly (I did it on that machine for testing),
> or take a pull request. Just let me know.

Here's the pull request, it also includes some security fixes that have
been reported publicly, and a crash for the UAS driver that some people
have hit already.

------------


The following changes since commit 48d10bda1f2c69980601a61194015bb0790fb7ab:

  Merge tag 'usb-4.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb (2016-03-17 14:24:26 -0700)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git/ tags/usb-4.6-rc1

for you to fetch changes up to 55ff8cfbc4e12a7d2187df523938cc671fbebdd1:

  USB: uas: Reduce can_queue to MAX_CMNDS (2016-03-18 09:19:02 -0700)

----------------------------------------------------------------
USB fixes for 4.6-rc1

Here is a USB fix for the reported issue with 69bec7259853 "USB: core:
let USB device know device node" as well as some other issues that have
been reported so far with this merge.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

----------------------------------------------------------------
Hans de Goede (1):
      USB: uas: Reduce can_queue to MAX_CMNDS

Josh Boyer (1):
      USB: iowarrior: fix oops with malicious USB descriptors

Nicolai Stange (1):
      usb/core: usb_alloc_dev(): fix setting of ->portnum

Oliver Neukum (2):
      USB: usb_driver_claim_interface: add sanity checking
      USB: cdc-acm: more sanity checking

 drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c  | 3 +++
 drivers/usb/core/driver.c    | 6 +++++-
 drivers/usb/core/usb.c       | 5 +++--
 drivers/usb/misc/iowarrior.c | 6 ++++++
 drivers/usb/storage/uas.c    | 2 +-
 5 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)