On Fri, 16 Mar 2012, Johan Hovold wrote: > Fix race between probe and open by making sure that the disconnected > flag is not cleared until all ports have been registered and the serial > struct is fully initialised. > > A call to tty_open while probe is running may get a reference to the > serial structure in serial_install before its ports have been > registered. This may lead to usb_serial_core calling driver open before > port is fully initialised. Are you sure that is really the problem? It doesn't seem to make sense -- before a port has been registered there should be no device file to open. > @@ -1088,6 +1094,7 @@ int usb_serial_probe(struct usb_interface *interface, > exit: > /* success */ > usb_set_intfdata(interface, serial); > + serial->disconnected = 0; > module_put(type->driver.owner); > return 0; On the other hand, it certainly seems like a good idea to move this usb_set_intfdata() call above the loop where the ports are registered. Alan Stern -- 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