lwn.git/drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c, branch docs-fixes

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

USB: serial: drop driver owner initialization

2024-08-26T13:28:25+00:00

Core in usb_serial_register_drivers() already sets the .owner, so driver does not need to. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold

USB: serial: return errors from break handling

2023-06-07T15:00:23+00:00

Start propagating errors to user space when setting the break state fails. This will be used by follow-on changes to also report when a driver or device does not support break control. Tested-by: Corey Minyard Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold

usb: serial: Make ->set_termios() old ktermios const

2022-08-30T12:22:35+00:00

There should be no reason to adjust old ktermios which is going to get discarded anyway. Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220816115739.10928-8-ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: remove CMSPAR ifdefs

2022-05-19T16:26:16+00:00

CMSPAR is defined by all architectures since commit 6bf08cb246b5 ("[PATCH] Add CMSPAR to termbits.h for powerpc and alpha"). Reviewed-by: Johan Hovold Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220513082906.11096-2-ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

USB: serial: whiteheat: fix heap overflow in WHITEHEAT_GET_DTR_RTS

2022-04-21T08:08:06+00:00

The sizeof(struct whitehat_dr_info) can be 4 bytes under CONFIG_AEABI=n due to "-mabi=apcs-gnu", even though it has a single u8: whiteheat_private { __u8 mcr; /* 0 1 */ /* size: 4, cachelines: 1, members: 1 */ /* padding: 3 */ /* last cacheline: 4 bytes */ }; The result is technically harmless, as both the source and the destinations are currently the same allocation size (4 bytes) and don't use their padding, but if anything were to ever be added after the "mcr" member in "struct whiteheat_private", it would be overwritten. The structs both have a single u8 "mcr" member, but are 4 bytes in padded size. The memcpy() destination was explicitly targeting the u8 member (size 1) with the length of the whole structure (size 4), triggering the memcpy buffer overflow warning: In file included from include/linux/string.h:253, from include/linux/bitmap.h:11, from include/linux/cpumask.h:12, from include/linux/smp.h:13, from include/linux/lockdep.h:14, from include/linux/spinlock.h:62, from include/linux/mmzone.h:8, from include/linux/gfp.h:6, from include/linux/slab.h:15, from drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c:17: In function 'fortify_memcpy_chk', inlined from 'firm_send_command' at drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c:587:4: include/linux/fortify-string.h:328:25: warning: call to '__write_overflow_field' declared with attribute warning: detected write beyond size of field (1st parameter); maybe use struct_group()? [-Wattribute-warning] 328 | __write_overflow_field(p_size_field, size); | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Instead, just assign the one byte directly. Reported-by: kernel test robot Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202204142318.vDqjjSFn-lkp@intel.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220421001234.2421107-1-keescook@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold

tty: make use of tty_get_{char,frame}_size

2021-06-15T12:03:27+00:00

In the previous patch, we introduced tty_get_char_size() and tty_get_frame_size() for computing character and frame sizes, respectively. Here, we make use of them in various tty drivers where applicable. The stats look nice: 12 insertions, 169 deletions. Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: David Lin Cc: Johan Hovold Cc: Alex Elder Cc: Shawn Guo Cc: Sascha Hauer Cc: Andy Gross Cc: Bjorn Andersson Cc: Maxime Coquelin Cc: Alexandre Torgue Cc: Oliver Neukum Acked-by: Alex Elder Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210610090247.2593-4-jslaby@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

USB: serial: stop reporting legacy UART types

2021-04-08T07:46:02+00:00

The TIOCGSERIAL ioctl can be used to set and retrieve the UART type for legacy UARTs, but some USB serial drivers have been reporting back random types in order to "make user-space happy". Some applications have historically expected TIOCGSERIAL to be implemented, but judging from the Debian sources, the port type not being PORT_UNKNOWN is only used to check for the existence of legacy serial ports (ttySn). Drivers like ftdi_sio have been using PORT_UNKNOWN for twenty years (and option for 10 years) without anyone complaining so let's stop reporting back anything else. In the unlikely event that this do cause problems, this should be fixed tree-wide anyway (e.g. for all USB serial drivers and also CDC-ACM). Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold

USB: serial: add generic support for TIOCSSERIAL

2021-04-08T07:46:02+00:00

TIOCSSERIAL is a horrid, underspecified, legacy interface which for most serial devices is only useful for setting the close_delay and closing_wait parameters. The closing_wait parameter determines how long to wait for the transfer buffers to drain during close and the default timeout of 30 seconds may not be sufficient at low line speeds. In other cases, when for example flow is stopped, the default timeout may instead be too long. Add generic support for TIOCSSERIAL and TIOCGSERIAL with handling of the three common parameters close_delay, closing_wait and line for the benefit of all USB serial drivers while still allowing drivers to implement further functionality through the existing callbacks. This currently includes a few drivers that report their base baud clock rate even if that is really only of interest when setting custom divisors through the deprecated ASYNC_SPD_CUST interface; an interface which only the FTDI driver actually implements. Some drivers have also been reporting back a fake UART type, something which should no longer be needed and will be dropped by a follow-on patch. Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold