Greg, hope you had not faced any issue (tab converted to spaces) with this patch.
In case still facing any issue please let me know.
> There is race condition when two USB class drivers try to call
> init_usb_class at the same time and leads to crash.
> code path: probe->usb_register_dev->init_usb_class
>
> To solve this, mutex locking has been added in init_usb_class() and
> destroy_usb_class().
>
> As pointed by Alan, removed "if (usb_class)" test from destroy_usb_class()
> because usb_class can never be NULL there.
Signed-off-by: Ajay Kaher <ajay.kaher@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/core/file.c | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/file.c b/drivers/usb/core/file.c
index 822ced9..422ce7b 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/file.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/file.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
#define MAX_USB_MINORS 256
static const struct file_operations *usb_minors[MAX_USB_MINORS];
static DECLARE_RWSEM(minor_rwsem);
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(init_usb_class_mutex);
static int usb_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
{
@@ -109,8 +110,9 @@ static void release_usb_class(struct kref *kref)
static void destroy_usb_class(void)
{
- if (usb_class)
- kref_put(&usb_class->kref, release_usb_class);
+ mutex_lock(&init_usb_class_mutex);
+ kref_put(&usb_class->kref, release_usb_class);
+ mutex_unlock(&init_usb_class_mutex);
}
int usb_major_init(void)
@@ -171,7 +173,10 @@ int usb_register_dev(struct usb_interface *intf,
if (intf->minor >= 0)
return -EADDRINUSE;
+ mutex_lock(&init_usb_class_mutex);
retval = init_usb_class();
+ mutex_unlock(&init_usb_class_mutex);
+
if (retval)
return retval;
--
1.7.9.5
