Re: [PATCH 5/5] USB: yurex: fix NULL-derefs on disconnect

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On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 05:38:48PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> The driver was using its struct usb_interface pointer as an inverted
> disconnected flag, but was setting it to NULL without making sure all
> code paths that used it were done with it.
> 
> Before commit ef61eb43ada6 ("USB: yurex: Fix protection fault after
> device removal") this included the interrupt-in completion handler, but
> there are further accesses in dev_err and dev_dbg statements in
> yurex_write() and the driver-data destructor (sic!).
> 
> Fix this by unconditionally stopping also the control URB at disconnect
> and by using a dedicated disconnected flag.
> 
> Note that we need to take a reference to the struct usb_interface to
> avoid a use-after-free in the destructor whenever the device was
> disconnected while the character device was still open.
> 
> Fixes: aadd6472d904 ("USB: yurex.c: remove dbg() usage")
> Fixes: 45714104b9e8 ("USB: yurex.c: remove err() usage")
> Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>     # 3.5: ef61eb43ada6
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>

Greg, I noticed that you picked up all patches in this series except
this last one.

Was that one purpose or by mistake?

Johan



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