Something seems to have gone wrong with v3 of this patch series. I am sure I sent it out, but I don't find it anywhere. Resending. Sorry for any duplicates. The uvcvideo code has no lock protection against USB disconnects while video operations are ongoing. This has resulted in random error reports, typically pointing to a crash in usb_ifnum_to_if(), called from usb_hcd_alloc_bandwidth(). A typical traceback is as follows. usb 1-4: USB disconnect, device number 3 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000 PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI CPU: 0 PID: 5633 Comm: V4L2CaptureThre Not tainted 4.19.113-08536-g5d29ca36db06 #1 Hardware name: GOOGLE Edgar, BIOS Google_Edgar.7287.167.156 03/25/2019 RIP: 0010:usb_ifnum_to_if+0x29/0x40 Code: <...> RSP: 0018:ffffa46f42a47a80 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff904a396c9000 RDX: ffff904a39641320 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: ffffa46f42a47a80 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000009975 R11: 0000000000000009 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: ffff904a396b3800 R14: ffff904a39e88000 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 00007f396448e700(0000) GS:ffff904a3ba00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000016cb46000 CR4: 00000000001006f0 Call Trace: usb_hcd_alloc_bandwidth+0x1ee/0x30f usb_set_interface+0x1a3/0x2b7 uvc_video_start_transfer+0x29b/0x4b8 [uvcvideo] uvc_video_start_streaming+0x91/0xdd [uvcvideo] uvc_start_streaming+0x28/0x5d [uvcvideo] vb2_start_streaming+0x61/0x143 [videobuf2_common] vb2_core_streamon+0xf7/0x10f [videobuf2_common] uvc_queue_streamon+0x2e/0x41 [uvcvideo] uvc_ioctl_streamon+0x42/0x5c [uvcvideo] __video_do_ioctl+0x33d/0x42a video_usercopy+0x34e/0x5ff ? video_ioctl2+0x16/0x16 v4l2_ioctl+0x46/0x53 do_vfs_ioctl+0x50a/0x76f ksys_ioctl+0x58/0x83 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x1a/0x1e do_syscall_64+0x54/0xde While there are not many references to this problem on mailing lists, it is reported on a regular basis on various Chromebooks (roughly 300 reports per month). The problem is relatively easy to reproduce by adding msleep() calls into the code. I tried to reproduce the problem with non-uvcvideo webcams, but was unsuccessful. I was unable to get Philips (pwc) webcams to work. gspca based webcams don't experience the problem, or at least I was unable to reproduce it (The gspa driver does not trigger sending USB messages in the open function, and otherwise uses the locking mechanism provided by the v4l2/vb2 core). I don't presume to claim that I found every issue, but this patch series should fix at least the major problems. The patch series was tested exensively on a Chromebook running chromeos-4.19 and on a Linux system running a v5.8.y based kernel. v3: - In patch 5/5, add missing calls to usb_autopm_put_interface() and kfree() to failure code path v2: - Added details about problem frequency and testing with non-uvc webcams to summary - In patch 4/5, return EPOLLERR instead of -ENODEV on poll errors - Fix description in patch 5/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Guenter Roeck (5): media: uvcvideo: Cancel async worker earlier media: uvcvideo: Lock video streams and queues while unregistering media: uvcvideo: Release stream queue when unregistering video device media: uvcvideo: Protect uvc queue file operations against disconnect media: uvcvideo: Abort uvc_v4l2_open if video device is unregistered drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_ctrl.c | 11 ++++++---- drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c | 12 ++++++++++ drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_queue.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-- drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h | 1 + 5 files changed, 93 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)