Then why does line 278 right below it check for NULL? On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 5:56 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 05:13:30PM +0000, John Boero wrote: > > Yes the patch is backwards sorry. Testing alt proposal from > > stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. It may be a buggy driver > > but it would be nice if a buggy driver couldn't bring down > > the entire usb core. lsusb hangs until reboot or reset of usb. > > buggy kernel drivers can do anything, including deleting the contents of > your disk. We don't protect the kernel from itself, sorry :) > > good luck! > > greg k-h
