[3.16.y-ckt extended stable] Patch "usb: serial: ftdi_sio: add "bricked" FTDI device PID" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Nov 10 11:33:08 UTC 2014


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    usb: serial: ftdi_sio: add "bricked" FTDI device PID

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt1.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 07926b94c75add73de4d262e3f4632802fc160cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Perry Hung <iperry at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 23:31:34 -0400
Subject: usb: serial: ftdi_sio: add "bricked" FTDI device PID

commit 7f2719f0003da1ad13124ef00f48d7514c79e30d upstream.

An official recent Windows driver from FTDI detects counterfeit devices
and reprograms the internal EEPROM containing the USB PID to 0, effectively
bricking the device.

Add support for this VID/PID pair to correctly bind the driver on these
devices.

See:
http://hackaday.com/2014/10/22/watch-that-windows-update-ftdi-drivers-are-killing-fake-chips/

Signed-off-by: Perry Hung <iperry at gmail.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c     | 1 +
 drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio_ids.h | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c b/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c
index dafc40d010b2..a523adad6380 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c
@@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ static struct ftdi_sio_quirk ftdi_8u2232c_quirk = {
  * /sys/bus/usb-serial/drivers/ftdi_sio/new_id and send a patch or report.
  */
 static const struct usb_device_id id_table_combined[] = {
+	{ USB_DEVICE(FTDI_VID, FTDI_BRICK_PID) },
 	{ USB_DEVICE(FTDI_VID, FTDI_ZEITCONTROL_TAGTRACE_MIFARE_PID) },
 	{ USB_DEVICE(FTDI_VID, FTDI_CTI_MINI_PID) },
 	{ USB_DEVICE(FTDI_VID, FTDI_CTI_NANO_PID) },
diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio_ids.h b/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio_ids.h
index b68084c11432..6786b705ccf6 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio_ids.h
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio_ids.h
@@ -30,6 +30,12 @@

 /*** third-party PIDs (using FTDI_VID) ***/

+/*
+ * Certain versions of the official Windows FTDI driver reprogrammed
+ * counterfeit FTDI devices to PID 0. Support these devices anyway.
+ */
+#define FTDI_BRICK_PID		0x0000
+
 #define FTDI_LUMEL_PD12_PID	0x6002

 /*
--
2.1.0





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