On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 03:39:01PM +0200, Holger brunck wrote: > Hi all, > we use a USB gadget driver on a MPC8247 based board. We use the connection for > serial emulation. In the past we used Kernel 2.6.28. During our upgrade to > 2.6.33 we see a kernel crash if we plug in the USB connector. > After investigating the code I saw that this was introduced due to the commit > USB gadget: Handle endpoint requests at the function level > I made a patch which solves the problem for our board. It can be seen below. > Maybe this null pointer check should also be done in the mainline kernel. > > Best regards > Holger Brunck > > [PATCH] USB gadget: check descriptors pointer before dereferencing > > Signed-off-by: Holger Brunck <holger.brunck@xxxxxxxxxxx> What was the result of this thread? Did anyone ever agree on the needed patch, if any? If there was one, can someone resend it to me? 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