Re: [PATCH 2/2] usb-serial: replace shutdown with disconnect, release

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On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 11:53:55AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> This patch (as1254) splits up the shutdown method of usb_serial_driver
> into a disconnect and a release method.
> 
> The problem is that the usb-serial core was calling shutdown during
> disconnect handling, but drivers didn't expect it to be called until
> after all the open file references had been closed.  The result was an
> oops when the close method tried to use memory that had been
> deallocated by shutdown.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Nevermind, I found 1/2, sorry for the noise...

greg k-h
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