Re: [PATCH] xhci: Avoid double free after streams are disabled.

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On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 03:37:56PM -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote:
> When a device is disconnected, xhci_free_virt_device() is called.  Ramya
> found that if the device had streams enabled, and then the driver freed
> the streams with a call to usb_free_streams(), then about a minute after
> he had called this, his machine crashed with a Bad DMA error.  It turns
> out that xhci_free_virt_device() would attempt to free the endpoint's
> stream_info data structure if it wasn't NULL, and the free streams
> function was not setting it to NULL after freeing it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Ramya Desai <ramya.desai@xxxxxxxxx>

Does this also need to go into the -stable trees?

thanks,

greg k-h
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