This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled HID: hidraw: fix warning destroying hidraw device files after parent to the 3.13-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: hid-hidraw-fix-warning-destroying-hidraw-device-files-after-parent.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.13 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 47587fc098451c2100dc1fb618855fc2e2d937af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:51:24 +0900 Subject: HID: hidraw: fix warning destroying hidraw device files after parent From: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 47587fc098451c2100dc1fb618855fc2e2d937af upstream. I noticed that after hot unplugging a Logitech unifying receiver (drivers/hid/hid-logitech-dj.c) the kernel would occasionally spew a stack trace similar to this: usb 1-1.1.2: USB disconnect, device number 7 WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2865 at fs/sysfs/group.c:216 device_del+0x40/0x1b0() sysfs group ffffffff8187fa20 not found for kobject 'hidraw0' [...] CPU: 0 PID: 2865 Comm: upowerd Tainted: G W 3.14.0-rc4 #7 Hardware name: LENOVO 7783PN4/ , BIOS 9HKT43AUS 07/11/2011 0000000000000009 ffffffff814cd684 ffff880427ccfdf8 ffffffff810616e7 ffff88041ec61800 ffff880427ccfe48 ffff88041e444d80 ffff880426fab8e8 ffff880429359960 ffffffff8106174c ffffffff81714b98 0000000000000028 Call Trace: [<ffffffff814cd684>] ? dump_stack+0x41/0x51 [<ffffffff810616e7>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x77/0x90 [<ffffffff8106174c>] ? warn_slowpath_fmt+0x4c/0x50 [<ffffffff81374fd0>] ? device_del+0x40/0x1b0 [<ffffffff8137516f>] ? device_unregister+0x2f/0x50 [<ffffffff813751fa>] ? device_destroy+0x3a/0x40 [<ffffffffa03ca245>] ? drop_ref+0x55/0x120 [hid] [<ffffffffa03ca3e6>] ? hidraw_release+0x96/0xb0 [hid] [<ffffffff811929da>] ? __fput+0xca/0x210 [<ffffffff8107fe17>] ? task_work_run+0x97/0xd0 [<ffffffff810139a9>] ? do_notify_resume+0x69/0xa0 [<ffffffff814dbd22>] ? int_signal+0x12/0x17 ---[ end trace 63f4a46f6566d737 ]--- During device removal hid_disconnect() is called via hid_hw_stop() to stop the device and free all its resources, including the sysfs files. The problem is that if a user space process, such as upowerd, holds a reference to a hidraw file the corresponding sysfs files will be kept around (drop_ref() does not call device_destroy() if the open counter is not 0) and it will be usb_disconnect() who, by calling device_del() for the USB device, will indirectly remove the sysfs files of the hidraw device (sysfs_remove_dir() is recursive these days). Because of this, by the time user space releases the last reference to the hidraw file and drop_ref() tries to destroy the device the sysfs files are already gone and the kernel will print the warning above. Fix this by calling device_destroy() at USB disconnect time. Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/hid/hidraw.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/hid/hidraw.c +++ b/drivers/hid/hidraw.c @@ -313,13 +313,13 @@ static void drop_ref(struct hidraw *hidr hid_hw_close(hidraw->hid); wake_up_interruptible(&hidraw->wait); } + device_destroy(hidraw_class, + MKDEV(hidraw_major, hidraw->minor)); } else { --hidraw->open; } if (!hidraw->open) { if (!hidraw->exist) { - device_destroy(hidraw_class, - MKDEV(hidraw_major, hidraw->minor)); hidraw_table[hidraw->minor] = NULL; kfree(hidraw); } else { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from fernando@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.13/hid-hidraw-fix-warning-destroying-hidraw-device-files-after-parent.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