Re: Kernel Oops during usb usage (2.6.5)

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 10:56:17PM +0200, E. Oltmanns wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> Summary:
> Kernel Oops caused by multiple access requests to a single scanner
> through libusb.
> 
> Detailed description:
> The following script leads to an kernel oops on my System:
> #!/bin/bash
> scanimage > test &
> scanimage -h
> 
> This is because scanimage -h tries to append a list of availlable
> scanners to the help output and thus interferes with the first
> scanimage process which is initializing the scanner at the same
> moment.

Heh, then don't do that :)

Accesses by two different processes of the same device through usbfs is
big trouble.  Don't do that.

That being said, I have some usbfs locking patches that might help a bit
here that will probably show up in the next -mm release if you want to
see if that helps you out or not.

thanks,

greg k-h