kernel/linux.git/drivers/usb/serial/console.c, branch v7.0-rc7

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

tty: Cleanup tty_port_set_initialized() bool parameter

2023-01-19T15:04:34+00:00

Make callers pass true/false consistently for bool val. Reviewed-by: Samuel Iglesias Gonsalvez Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230117090358.4796-2-ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

USB: serial: console: move mutex_unlock() before usb_serial_put()

2022-09-19T13:30:16+00:00

While in current version there is no use-after-free as USB serial core holds another reference when the console is registered, we should better unlock before dropping the reference in usb_console_setup(). Fixes: 7bd032dc2793 ("USB serial: update the console driver") Signed-off-by: Liang He Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold

USB: serial: console: add support for flow control

2020-07-02T08:38:45+00:00

Add support for enabling hardware flow control using the 'r' command line option. This also avoids a W=1 (-Wunused-but-set-variable) warning. Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold

USB: serial: console: fix reported terminal settings

2018-12-05T10:29:10+00:00

The USB-serial console implementation has never reported the actual terminal settings used. Despite storing the corresponding cflags in its struct console, these were never honoured on later tty open() where the tty termios would be left initialised to the driver defaults. Unlike the serial console implementation, the USB-serial code calls subdriver open() already at console setup. While calling set_termios() and write() before open() looks like it could work for some USB-serial drivers, others definitely do not expect this, so modelling this after serial core is going to be intrusive, if at all possible. Instead, use a (renamed) tty helper to save the termios data used at console setup so that the tty termios reflects the actual terminal settings after a subsequent tty open(). Note that the calls to tty_init_termios() (tty_driver_install()) and tty_save_termios() are serialised using the disconnect mutex. This specifically fixes a regression that was triggered by a recent change adding software flow control to the pl2303 driver: a getty trying to disable flow control while leaving the baud rate unchanged would now also set the baud rate to the driver default (prior to the flow-control change this had been a noop). Fixes: 7041d9c3f01b ("USB: serial: pl2303: add support for tx xon/xoff flow control") Cc: stable # 4.18 Cc: Florian Zumbiehl Reported-by: Jarkko Nikula Tested-by: Jarkko Nikula Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold

USB: serial: Remove redundant license text

2017-11-04T10:55:38+00:00

Now that the SPDX tag is in all USB files, that identifies the license in a specific and legally-defined manner. So the extra GPL text wording can be removed as it is no longer needed at all. This is done on a quest to remove the 700+ different ways that files in the kernel describe the GPL license text. And there's unneeded stuff like the address (sometimes incorrect) for the FSF which is never needed. No copyright headers or other non-license-description text was removed. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-by: Johan Hovold Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

USB: add SPDX identifiers to all remaining files in drivers/usb/

2017-11-04T10:48:02+00:00

It's good to have SPDX identifiers in all files to make it easier to audit the kernel tree for correct licenses. Update the drivers/usb/ and include/linux/usb* files with the correct SPDX license identifier based on the license text in the file itself. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This work is based on a script and data from Thomas Gleixner, Philippe Ombredanne, and Kate Stewart. Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Kate Stewart Cc: Philippe Ombredanne Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-by: Felipe Balbi Acked-by: Johan Hovold Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

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

2017-10-09T10:33:31+00:00

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 # 2.6.18 Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold

USB: serial: console: fix use-after-free on disconnect

2017-10-09T10:33:04+00:00

A clean-up patch removing two redundant NULL-checks from the console disconnect handler inadvertently also removed a third check. This could lead to the struct usb_serial being prematurely freed by the console code when a driver accepts but does not register any ports for an interface which also lacks endpoint descriptors. Fixes: 0e517c93dc02 ("USB: serial: console: clean up sanity checks") Cc: stable # 4.11 Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold