On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 02:59:20PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > Disabling tty_low_latency doesn't work,see the below thread: > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg26424.html > > Interesting. I've just been reading the code to look at this in more > depth and I think I need a barf bucket. It's not using tty refcounts, its > not locking properly, it even tests and detects a now invalid pointer and > then proceeds to use it. I imagine with a bit of thought its exploitable > too. > > Probably someone should rewrite it. The usb serial layer has all this > mess sorted out. u_serial appears to be a relative of a last century > usbserial. Yeah, I think it was based on a very old version of that :( I don't think it can use the usb serial layer, as it is a different type of driver (runs on the gadget, not on the host), but I'll look into it, it might not be all that bad... thanks, greg k-h -- 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
