On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 04:59:07PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote: > Firstly, .shutdown callback may touch a uninitialized hardware > if dev->driver is set and .probe is not completed. When would that ever happen? > Secondly, device_shutdown() may dereference a null pointer to cause > oops when dev->driver is cleared after it is checked in device_shutdown(). Again, when would that happen? A new device/driver being added to the system as it is being shutdown? Has anyone ever hit that before? Is this really needed? 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
