aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/kernel
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>2009-05-18 13:07:35 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-05-18 08:37:15 -0700
commit80193195f87ebca6d7417516d6edeb3969631c15 (patch)
tree870be37dde8e7d2524c2cce5a4571d5a41f0a80a /kernel
parentdbf8c11f821b6ff83302c34f2403b4f7231f50ae (diff)
Fix oops on close of hot-unplugged FTDI serial converter
Commit c45d6320 ("fix reference counting of ftdi_private") stopped ftdi_sio_port_remove() from directly freeing the port-private data, with the intention if the port was still open, it would be freed when ftdi_close() is eventually called and releases the last refcount on the structure. That's all very well, but ftdi_sio_port_remove() still contains a call to usb_set_serial_port_data(port, NULL) -- so by the time we get to ftdi_close() for the port which was unplugged, it _still_ oopses on dereferencing that NULL pointer, as it did before (and does in 2.6.29). The fix is just not to clear the private data in ftdi_sio_port_remove(). Then the refcount is properly reduced to zero when the final kref_put() happens in ftdi_close(). Remove a bogus comment too, while we're at it. And stop doing things inside "if (priv)" -- it must _always_ be there. Based loosely on an earlier patch by Daniel Mack, and suggestions by Alan Stern. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Tested-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
0 files changed, 0 insertions, 0 deletions