Re: [PATCH 1/2] USB: symbolserial: Use usb_get_serial_port_data

From: Johan Hovold
Date: Mon Aug 17 2015 - 14:01:30 EST


On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 09:06:15AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 05:31:46PM +0200, Philipp Hachtmann wrote:
> > The driver used usb_get_serial_data(port->serial) which compiled but resulted
> > in a NULL pointer being returned (and subsequently used). I did not go deeper
> > into this but I guess this is a regression.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Philipp Hachtmann <hachti@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/usb/serial/symbolserial.c | 6 +++---
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> Doh, obviously no one has used this driver in a long time, thanks for
> these patches...

Wow...

> Johan, mind if I take these directly?

Please do.

This one should be tagged:

Fixes: a85796ee5149 ("USB: symbolserial: move private-data allocation to
port_probe")
Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v3.10

And for both patches:

Acked-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Johan
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