This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
USB: serial: suppress driver bind attributes
to my usb git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git
in the usb-linus branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From fdb838efa31e1ed9a13ae6ad0b64e30fdbd00570 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 17:07:05 +0100
Subject: USB: serial: suppress driver bind attributes
USB-serial drivers must not be unbound from their ports before the
corresponding USB driver is unbound from the parent interface so
suppress the bind and unbind attributes.
Unbinding a serial driver while it's port is open is a sure way to
trigger a crash as any driver state is released on unbind while port
hangup is handled on the parent USB interface level. Drivers for
multiport devices where ports share a resource such as an interrupt
endpoint also generally cannot handle individual ports going away.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c b/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c
index 8f066bb55d7d..dc7a65b9ec98 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c
@@ -1317,6 +1317,9 @@ static int usb_serial_register(struct usb_serial_driver *driver)
return -EINVAL;
}
+ /* Prevent individual ports from being unbound. */
+ driver->driver.suppress_bind_attrs = true;
+
usb_serial_operations_init(driver);
/* Add this device to our list of devices */
--
2.25.0
