From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [1/2] usb: typec: mux: Take care of driver module reference counting
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 13:20:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180920112003.GA12655@kroah.com> (raw)
On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 10:58:04AM +0300, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
> Functions typec_mux_get() and typec_switch_get() already
> make sure that the mux device reference count is
> incremented, but the same must be done to the driver module
> as well to prevent the drivers from being unloaded in the
> middle of operation.
>
> This fixes a potential "BUG: unable to handle kernel paging
> request at ..." from happening.
>
> Fixes: 93dd2112c7b2 ("usb: typec: mux: Get the mux identifier from function parameter")
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Why is this flagged for stable? 93dd2112c7b2 went into 4.19-rc1 and has
not been backported anywhere else.
confused,
greg k-h
next reply other threads:[~2018-09-20 11:20 UTC|newest]
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2018-09-20 11:20 Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
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2018-09-20 11:34 [1/2] usb: typec: mux: Take care of driver module reference counting Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-20 11:26 Heikki Krogerus
2018-09-19 18:58 Sasha Levin
2018-09-19 7:58 Heikki Krogerus
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