USB: serial: console: fix use-after-free after failed setup

Make sure to reset the USB-console port pointer when console setup fails
in order to avoid having the struct usb_serial be prematurely freed by
the console code when the device is later disconnected.

Fixes: 73e487fdb75f ("[PATCH] USB console: fix disconnection issues")
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>	# 2.6.18
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>

diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/console.c b/drivers/usb/serial/console.c
index ed8ba3ef5c794fdf97ce2cd7b28b48bef17f642c..43a862a90a77592eda9eab2aa75be90a69981ffc 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/console.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/console.c
@@ -186,6 +186,7 @@ static int usb_console_setup(struct console *co, char *options)
        tty_kref_put(tty);
  reset_open_count:
        port->port.count = 0;
+       info->port = NULL;
        usb_autopm_put_interface(serial->interface);
  error_get_interface:
        usb_serial_put(serial);