This patch (as1267) changes usb_kick_khubd() and hdev_to_hub() to make them more resilient against situations where a hub device isn't bound to the hub driver. The code assumes that if a root hub was successfully registered then it must be bound to the hub driver. But this assumption can fail if the user manually unbinds the hub driver, or more importantly, if the host controller dies causing usb_set_configuration to fail. To protect against these possibilities, make hdev_to_hub() check that the hub device is configured before dereferencing the active configuration, and make usb_kick_khubd() check that the pointer to the hub's private data structure isn't NULL. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Index: usb-2.6/drivers/usb/core/hub.c =================================================================== --- usb-2.6.orig/drivers/usb/core/hub.c +++ usb-2.6/drivers/usb/core/hub.c @@ -163,8 +163,10 @@ static inline char *portspeed(int portst } /* Note that hdev or one of its children must be locked! */ -static inline struct usb_hub *hdev_to_hub(struct usb_device *hdev) +static struct usb_hub *hdev_to_hub(struct usb_device *hdev) { + if (!hdev || !hdev->actconfig) + return NULL; return usb_get_intfdata(hdev->actconfig->interface[0]); } @@ -385,8 +387,10 @@ static void kick_khubd(struct usb_hub *h void usb_kick_khubd(struct usb_device *hdev) { - /* FIXME: What if hdev isn't bound to the hub driver? */ - kick_khubd(hdev_to_hub(hdev)); + struct usb_hub *hub = hdev_to_hub(hdev); + + if (hub) + kick_khubd(hub); } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html