Re: [PATCH] wusbcore: fix kernel panic when disconnecting a wireless USB->serial device

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On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 09:52:13AM -0500, Thomas Pugliese wrote:
> This patch fixes a kernel panic that can occur when disconnecting a 
> wireless USB->serial device.  When the serial device disconnects, the 
> device cleanup procedure ends up calling usb_hcd_disable_endpoint on the 
> serial device's endpoints.  The wusbcore uses the ABORT_RPIPE command to 
> abort all transfers on the given endpoint but it does not properly give 
> back the URBs when the transfer results return from the HWA.  This patch 
> prevents the transfer result processing code from bailing out when it sees 
> a WA_XFER_STATUS_ABORTED result code so that these urbs are flushed 
> properly by usb_hcd_disable_endpoint.  It also updates wa_urb_dequeue to 
> handle the case where the endpoint has already been cleaned up when 
> usb_kill_urb is called which is where the panic originally occurred.

This isn't unique to usb-serial drivers, is it?  Or are they the only
ones that happen to trigger this issue?

Should this go to older kernels as well to solve the problem?

thanks,

greg k-h
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