On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 02:40:52PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > On Wed, 2 Feb 2011, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 01:59:33PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > > > The USB core keeps track of pending resume requests for root hubs, in > > > order to resolve races between wakeup requests and suspends. However > > > the code that does this is subject to another race (between wakeup > > > requests and resumes) because the WAKEUP_PENDING flag is cleared > > > before the resume occurs, leaving a window in which another wakeup > > > request might arrive. > > > > > > This patch (as1447) fixes the problem by clearing the WAKEUP_PENDING > > > flag after the resume instead of before it. > > > > > > This fixes Bugzilla #24952. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Tested-by: Paul Bender <pebender@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Tested-by: warpme <warpme@xxxxx> > > > CC: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > --- > > > > > > This change applies only to the 2.6.36 and 2.6.37 stable kernels, not > > > any earlier ones. > > > > So nothing is needed for .38 at all? > > I meant that the patch should be applied to 2.6.38-rc and to > 2.6.37-stable and 2.6.36-stable -- no other stable kernels need it. Ah, ok, that makes more sense to me, sorry for the noise. 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
