Re: [RFC 0/2] Fixing usb_wwan NULL pointer dereferencing

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On Thu, 26 Jul 2012, Bjørn Mork wrote:

> Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > In fact, I would say that the three loops in stop_read_write_urbs() and 
> > usb_wwan_release() could be combined into a single loop that should run 
> > in the port_remove callback.
> 
> Maybe something like this would do?  It is based on usb-3.6-rc1, but will
> also apply to the current linux-next (next-20120726).

This seems more or less reasonable.  In theory, stop_read_write_urbs()  
could be moved directly into usb_wwan_suspend() since it isn't used
anywhere else now.

> I did not know exactly how to handle the suspend/resume issues, so I took
> the absolute minimum approach to avoid Ooopsing if the device is suspended
> when the module is unloaded.  This is split out in a separate patch. Should
> probably be polished a bit.

In theory it's also possible for the suspend callback to run after 
port_remove, so you should add a similar test to stop_read_write_urbs, 
wherever that routine ends up.

There is a possible race here: The suspend or resume callback could run 
at the same time as the port_remove callback.  Perhaps 
usb_serial_device_probe() and usb_serial_device_remove() should wrap 
everything in usb_autopm_get_interface()/usb_autopm_put_interface().

Alan Stern

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