Commit e534c5b831c8b8e9f5edee5c8a37753c808b80dc (USB: fix regression occurring during device removal) didn't go far enough. It failed to take into account that when a driver claims multiple interfaces, it may release them all at the same time. As a result, some interfaces can get released before they are unregistered, and we deadlock trying to acquire the bandwidth_mutex that we already own. This patch (asl478) handles this case by setting the "unregistering" flag on all the interfaces before removing any of them. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> CC: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> --- This should take care of Eric's problem as well as Arkadiusz, since they seemed to be hitting the same thing (cdc_ether claiming multiple interfaces and hanging while releasing them). Still, we need to rewrite this stuff. A possible race remains, because a driver may try to change an altsetting at the same time as the device is removed. Either the driver's disconnect routine would hang waiting for the altsetting change (which is waiting to acquire the bandwidth_mutex) or else the altsetting change would go through after the driver was unbound from the device. Neither alternative is good. Alan Stern drivers/usb/core/message.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: usb-3.0/drivers/usb/core/message.c =================================================================== --- usb-3.0.orig/drivers/usb/core/message.c +++ usb-3.0/drivers/usb/core/message.c @@ -1147,6 +1147,14 @@ void usb_disable_device(struct usb_devic * any drivers bound to them (a key side effect) */ if (dev->actconfig) { + /* + * FIXME: In order to avoid self-deadlock involving the + * bandwidth_mutex, we have to mark all the interfaces + * before unregistering any of them. + */ + for (i = 0; i < dev->actconfig->desc.bNumInterfaces; i++) + dev->actconfig->interface[i]->unregistering = 1; + for (i = 0; i < dev->actconfig->desc.bNumInterfaces; i++) { struct usb_interface *interface; @@ -1156,7 +1164,6 @@ void usb_disable_device(struct usb_devic continue; dev_dbg(&dev->dev, "unregistering interface %s\n", dev_name(&interface->dev)); - interface->unregistering = 1; remove_intf_ep_devs(interface); device_del(&interface->dev); } -- 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