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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-02-28 09:20:09 -0800
committerWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>2012-10-07 23:37:34 +0200
commitf12847e2fa97bd4c33379d02492e99b47687db7f (patch)
tree720ef533e089b0d19ac6d2a00314d5e51554d6d3 /drivers
parent9d899d1facbd52795a6a94c667439000ab9f2bca (diff)
USB: ftdi_sio: fix problem when the manufacture is a NULL string
commit 656d2b3964a9d0f9864d472f8dfa2dd7dd42e6c0 upstream. On some misconfigured ftdi_sio devices, if the manufacturer string is NULL, the kernel will oops when the device is plugged in. This patch fixes the problem. Reported-by: Wojciech M Zabolotny <W.Zabolotny@elka.pw.edu.pl> Tested-by: Wojciech M Zabolotny <W.Zabolotny@elka.pw.edu.pl> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c b/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c
index 0a1ccaafa379..c374beb342c3 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c
@@ -1784,7 +1784,8 @@ static int ftdi_8u2232c_probe(struct usb_serial *serial)
dbg("%s", __func__);
- if (strcmp(udev->manufacturer, "CALAO Systems") == 0)
+ if ((udev->manufacturer) &&
+ (strcmp(udev->manufacturer, "CALAO Systems") == 0))
return ftdi_jtag_probe(serial);
return 0;