On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 05:07:05PM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote: > USB-serial drivers must not be unbound from their ports before the > corresponding USB driver is unbound from the parent interface so > suppress the bind and unbind attributes. > > Unbinding a serial driver while it's port is open is a sure way to > trigger a crash as any driver state is released on unbind while port > hangup is handled on the parent USB interface level. Drivers for > multiport devices where ports share a resource such as an interrupt > endpoint also generally cannot handle individual ports going away. > > Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c | 3 +++ > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c b/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c > index 8f066bb55d7d..dc7a65b9ec98 100644 > --- a/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c > +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c > @@ -1317,6 +1317,9 @@ static int usb_serial_register(struct usb_serial_driver *driver) > return -EINVAL; > } > > + /* Prevent individual ports from being unbound. */ > + driver->driver.suppress_bind_attrs = true; We can still unbind the usb driver though, right? If so, this is fine with me. thanks, greg k-h