Re: USB SMP race in 2.4.11

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 10:22:23PM +0400, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
>    I have caught kernel oops that is related to SMP race on usb modules
>    deregistering.
>    2.4.10 was fine with the same setup.
>    USB core is compiled-in, hub driver is uhci (as module).
>    Here is the decoded oops:

Can you try the attached patch and let us know if the oops still
happens?

thanks,

greg k-h


diff --minimal -Nru a/drivers/usb/uhci.c b/drivers/usb/uhci.c
--- a/drivers/usb/uhci.c	Wed Oct 10 07:32:38 2001
+++ b/drivers/usb/uhci.c	Wed Oct 10 07:32:38 2001
@@ -1594,9 +1594,7 @@
 	}
 
 	uhci_unlink_generic(uhci, urb);
-	uhci_destroy_urb_priv(urb);
-
-	usb_dec_dev_use(urb->dev);
+	uhci_call_completion(urb);
 
 	return ret;
 }