[PATCH] USB: serial: io_edgeport: cap received transmit credits

From: Sunho Park

Date: Tue Jul 14 2026 - 05:35:35 EST


The interrupt-status packet reports transmit credits returned by the
device. edge_interrupt_callback() adds the 16-bit value to txCredits
without checking maxTxCredits.

edge_write() uses txCredits minus the software FIFO count as the amount
of data that fits. Since the FIFO is allocated with maxTxCredits bytes,
txCredits exceeding maxTxCredits can cause OOB write in ring buffer.

Cap accumulated credits at maxTxCredits. Conforming devices should never
hit the cap.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5
Signed-off-by: Sunho Park <shpark061104@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/serial/io_edgeport.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/io_edgeport.c b/drivers/usb/serial/io_edgeport.c
index 34ccf7820537..503b3b5bb647 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/io_edgeport.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/io_edgeport.c
@@ -646,7 +646,10 @@ static void edge_interrupt_callback(struct urb *urb)
if (edge_port && edge_port->open) {
spin_lock_irqsave(&edge_port->ep_lock,
flags);
- edge_port->txCredits += txCredits;
+ edge_port->txCredits =
+ min_t(unsigned int,
+ edge_port->txCredits + txCredits,
+ edge_port->maxTxCredits);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&edge_port->ep_lock,
flags);
dev_dbg(dev, "%s - txcredits for port%d = %d\n",

base-commit: fad0fd120e29041b3e6cdf41bb12e3184fb524a2
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2.43.0