Sorry guys I was away due to personal emergency, however now I am back and will check the reply ASAP. On 28 July 2012 21:49, Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jul 2012, Daniel Mack wrote: > >> Hmm, interesting. Thanks for sharing this. I personally never saw this >> bug kicking in, but if I understand your findings correctly, we would >> need something like the following patch for snd-usb and the storage driver? >> >> Sarbojit, could you give this a test and see whether your kernel still >> crashes in any of the two drivers? > > >> --- a/drivers/usb/storage/usb.c >> +++ b/drivers/usb/storage/usb.c >> @@ -1025,9 +1025,14 @@ void usb_stor_disconnect(struct usb_interface *intf) >> { >> struct us_data *us = usb_get_intfdata(intf); >> >> + if (!us) >> + return; > > This can never happen. The disconnect routine gets called only once, > so us will not be NULL. > >> + >> US_DEBUGP("storage_disconnect() called\n"); >> quiesce_and_remove_host(us); >> release_everything(us); >> + >> + usb_set_intfdata(intf, NULL); >> } >> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(usb_stor_disconnect); > > Alan Stern > -- Regards, Sarbojit -- 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