On Wed, 12 Oct 2011, Oliver Neukum wrote: > looking at the usbhid code it seems to me that there is no protection > between the error handling code and pre_reset() racing. > > In particular there seems to be no protection from hid_retry_timeout() calling > hid_start_in() which would start IO after hid_pre_reset() has already called > hid_cease_io() because that uses del_timer(), not del_timer_sync() > > What do you think about this patch? Looks like you made a good catch, thanks. Out of curiosity -- did you encounter this happening for real, or have you find out by code reading? > > Regards > Oliver > > From d13b3b42669cfbed3716d040cc8ce489fecd6963 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:54:54 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH] USB: usbhid: cancel timer for retry synchronously > > This makes sure IO is never restarted while a reset is going on > > Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c | 2 +- > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c b/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c > index ad978f5..77e705c 100644 > --- a/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c > +++ b/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c > @@ -1270,7 +1270,7 @@ static void hid_cancel_delayed_stuff(struct usbhid_device *usbhid) > > static void hid_cease_io(struct usbhid_device *usbhid) > { > - del_timer(&usbhid->io_retry); > + del_timer_sync(&usbhid->io_retry); > usb_kill_urb(usbhid->urbin); > usb_kill_urb(usbhid->urbctrl); > usb_kill_urb(usbhid->urbout); Will queue this up. Thanks again, -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- 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