The driver was accessing its struct usb_interface in its release()
callback without holding a reference. This would lead to a
use-after-free whenever the device was disconnected while the character
device was still open.

Fixes: 66e3e591891d ("usb: Add driver for Altus Metrum ChaosKey device (v2)")
Cc: stable <sta...@vger.kernel.org>     # 4.1
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <jo...@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/usb/misc/chaoskey.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/misc/chaoskey.c b/drivers/usb/misc/chaoskey.c
index cf5828ce927a..34e6cd6f40d3 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/misc/chaoskey.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/misc/chaoskey.c
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ static void chaoskey_free(struct chaoskey *dev)
                usb_free_urb(dev->urb);
                kfree(dev->name);
                kfree(dev->buf);
+               usb_put_intf(dev->interface);
                kfree(dev);
        }
 }
@@ -145,6 +146,8 @@ static int chaoskey_probe(struct usb_interface *interface,
        if (dev == NULL)
                goto out;
 
+       dev->interface = usb_get_intf(interface);
+
        dev->buf = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
 
        if (dev->buf == NULL)
@@ -174,8 +177,6 @@ static int chaoskey_probe(struct usb_interface *interface,
                        goto out;
        }
 
-       dev->interface = interface;
-
        dev->in_ep = in_ep;
 
        if (le16_to_cpu(udev->descriptor.idVendor) != ALEA_VENDOR_ID)
-- 
2.23.0

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