USB: serial: cp210x: fix dropped characters with CP2102
Some CP2102 do not support event-insertion mode but return no error when attempting to enable it. This means that any event escape characters in the input stream will not be escaped by the device and consequently regular data may be interpreted as escape sequences and be removed from the stream by the driver. The reporter's device has batch number DCL00X etched into it and as discovered by the SHA2017 Badge team, counterfeit devices with that marking can be detected by sending malformed vendor requests. [1][2] Tests confirm that the possibly counterfeit CP2102 returns a single byte in response to a malformed two-byte part-number request, while an original CP2102 returns two bytes. Assume that every CP2102 that behaves this way also does not support event-insertion mode (e.g. cannot report parity errors). [1] https://mobile.twitter.com/sha2017badge/status/1167902087289532418 [2] https://hackaday.com/2017/08/14/hands-on-with-the-shacamp-2017-badge/#comment-3903376Reported-by: Malte Di Donato <malte@neo-soft.org> Tested-by: Malte Di Donato <malte@neo-soft.org> Fixes: a7207e98 ("USB: serial: cp210x: add support for line-status events") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.9 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210922113100.20888-1-johan@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
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