This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
usb: hub: take hub->hdev reference when processing from eventlist
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 c605f3cdff53a743f6d875b76956b239deca1272 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 15:07:50 -0400
Subject: usb: hub: take hub->hdev reference when processing from eventlist
During surprise device hotplug removal tests, it was observed that
hub_events may try to call usb_lock_device on a device that has already
been freed. Protect the usb_device by taking out a reference (under the
hub_event_lock) when hub_events pulls it off the list, returning the
reference after hub_events is finished using it.
Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: David Bulkow <david.bulkow@xxxxxxxxxxx> for using kref
Suggested-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> for placement
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/core/hub.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/hub.c b/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
index 46f5161c7891..d481c99a20d7 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
@@ -5024,9 +5024,10 @@ static void hub_events(void)
hub = list_entry(tmp, struct usb_hub, event_list);
kref_get(&hub->kref);
+ hdev = hub->hdev;
+ usb_get_dev(hdev);
spin_unlock_irq(&hub_event_lock);
- hdev = hub->hdev;
hub_dev = hub->intfdev;
intf = to_usb_interface(hub_dev);
dev_dbg(hub_dev, "state %d ports %d chg %04x evt %04x\n",
@@ -5139,6 +5140,7 @@ static void hub_events(void)
usb_autopm_put_interface(intf);
loop_disconnected:
usb_unlock_device(hdev);
+ usb_put_dev(hdev);
kref_put(&hub->kref, hub_release);
} /* end while (1) */
--
2.1.0
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