This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled xhci: refuse loading if nousb is used to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: xhci-refuse-loading-if-nousb-is-used.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 1eaf35e4dd592c59041bc1ed3248c46326da1f5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 15:03:34 +0100 Subject: xhci: refuse loading if nousb is used From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx> commit 1eaf35e4dd592c59041bc1ed3248c46326da1f5f upstream. The module should fail to load. Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/host/xhci.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/usb/host/xhci.c +++ b/drivers/usb/host/xhci.c @@ -4815,6 +4815,10 @@ static int __init xhci_hcd_init(void) BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct xhci_intr_reg) != 8*32/8); /* xhci_run_regs has eight fields and embeds 128 xhci_intr_regs */ BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct xhci_run_regs) != (8+8*128)*32/8); + + if (usb_disabled()) + return -ENODEV; + return 0; unreg_pci: xhci_unregister_pci(); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from oneukum@xxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/xhci-refuse-loading-if-nousb-is-used.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html