[PATCH] USB: serial: mct_u232: fix missing interrupt-in transfer sanity check

From: Johan Hovold

Date: Wed May 20 2026 - 06:19:02 EST


Add the missing sanity check on the size of interrupt-in transfers to
avoid parsing stale or uninitialised slab data (and leaking it to user
space).

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c b/drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c
index ca1530da6e77..163161881d2d 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c
@@ -544,6 +544,11 @@ static void mct_u232_read_int_callback(struct urb *urb)
goto exit;
}

+ if (urb->actual_length < 2) {
+ dev_warn_ratelimited(&port->dev, "short interrupt-in packet\n");
+ goto exit;
+ }
+
/*
* The interrupt-in pipe signals exceptional conditions (modem line
* signal changes and errors). data[0] holds MSR, data[1] holds LSR.
--
2.53.0