USB: serial: io_edgeport: cap received transmit credits
authorSunho Park <shpark061104@gmail.com>
Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:42:30 +0000 (19:42 +0900)
committerJohan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:23:54 +0000 (11:23 +0200)
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@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5
Signed-off-by: Sunho Park <shpark061104@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
drivers/usb/serial/io_edgeport.c

index 34ccf78..eaa8f00 100644 (file)
@@ -646,7 +646,8 @@ 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(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",