My testprog do a lot of bitbang - after hours i got following warning and my machine lockups: WARNING: at /build/buildd/linux-2.6.38/lib/kref.c:34 After debugging uss720 driver i discovered that the completion callback was called before usb_submit_urb returns. The callback frees the request structure that is krefed on return by usb_submit_urb. Signed-off-by: Peter Holik <peter@xxxxxxxx>
--- linux/drivers/usb/misc/uss720.c.orig 2011-03-18 13:17:55.000000000 +0100 +++ linux/drivers/usb/misc/uss720.c 2011-03-21 15:47:58.949997847 +0100 @@ -177,12 +177,11 @@ static struct uss720_async_request *subm spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->asynclock, flags); list_add_tail(&rq->asynclist, &priv->asynclist); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->asynclock, flags); + kref_get(&rq->ref_count); ret = usb_submit_urb(rq->urb, mem_flags); - if (!ret) { - kref_get(&rq->ref_count); + if (!ret) return rq; - } - kref_put(&rq->ref_count, destroy_async); + destroy_async(&rq->ref_count); err("submit_async_request submit_urb failed with %d", ret); return NULL; }