Re: [PATCH v2] p54usb: rewriting rx/tx routines to make use of usb_anchor's facilities

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 03:14:37PM +0100, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> Alan Stern found several flaws in p54usb's implementation and annotat=
ed:=20
> "usb_kill_urb() and similar routines do not expect an URB's completio=
n
> routine to deallocate it. =A0This is almost obvious -- if the URB is =
deallocated
> before the completion routine returns then there's no way for usb_kil=
l_urb
> to detect when the URB actually is complete."
>=20
> This patch addresses all known limitations in the old implementation =
and fixes
> khub's "use-after-freed" hang, when SLUB debug's poisoning option is =
enabled.
>=20
> Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
> Cc: stable@kernel.org

That's a big patch for so late in the cycle.  Is there a bugzilla open =
for it?

John
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