On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Oliver Neukum wrote: > I guess it wasn't removed because > a) disconnect() used to take BKL > b) nobody was ready to check all open() methods for dependency on BKL > > > Why isn't minor_rwsem sufficient protection? > > It is dropped too early. It is held only while a device is registered, not > during enough of probing. There really doesn't seem to be any other option with usb_open() relying on lock_kernel() still. I have added comment to the code and applied the patch, thanks a lot Oliver. -- Jiri Kosina -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
