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authorAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>2008-10-21 15:28:46 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2008-10-29 14:54:40 -0700
commitcde217a556ec552d28ac9e136c5a94684a69ae94 (patch)
tree6b8368511301e513c6de8a40dffa357c1064b20e /CREDITS
parente946217e4fdaa67681bbabfa8e6b18641921f750 (diff)
USB: fix crash when URBs are unlinked after the device is gone
This patch (as1151) protects usbcore against drivers that try to unlink an URB after the URB's device or bus have been removed. The core does not currently check for this, and certain drivers can cause a crash if they are running while an HCD is unloaded. Certainly it would be best to fix the guilty drivers. But a little defensive programming doesn't hurt, especially since it appears that quite a few drivers need to be fixed. The patch prevents the problem by grabbing a reference to the device while an unlink is in progress and using a new spinlock to synchronize unlinks with device removal. (There's no need to acquire a reference to the bus as well, since the device structure itself keeps a reference to the bus.) In addition, the kerneldoc is updated to indicate that URBs should not be unlinked after the disconnect method returns. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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