Re: [OOPS] on usb removal, and minicom closing 2.6.11.7

[Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>]

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On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 14:40:36 +0200 Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz wrote:

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> Works great, I would like to ask everyone here on lkml to consider
> adding this patch to mainline.
> This ain't naughty solution, checking for object/pointer/whatever if
> exists before doing anything with it, is good.

No, this patch is broken.  It just avoids the problem in 99% of cases,
but it is not reliable.  The real problem is that refcounting in cdc-acm
is broken, and the kernel is accessing freed memory.

The patches which really seem to fix the underlying problem can be found
in this thread:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.usb.devel/32977

(see "[PATCH] N/3 cdc acm errors").

You also need this driver core fix:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.usb.devel/33132


> Anyone?
> 
> Buy the way, I am also looking for usblan for 2.6, can I use usbnet
> instead ? Anyone ported usblan to 2.6 (it's on GPL).
> 
> JustMan wrote:
> >>So,
> >>
> >>I plugged in e680 motorola phone, played a bit with minicom on
> >>/dev/ttyACM0, and when I closed minicom, got this oops. USB is useless,
> >>got to reboot computer to use it again!
> >>it's vanilla 2.6.11.7
> >>
> >>oops attached.
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > Try attached patch... (nasty solution, but it work for my C350  motorola phone)
> > 
> > 
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > diff -uNrp linux/drivers/base/class.orig.c  linux/drivers/base/class.c
> > --- linux/drivers/base/class.orig.c	2005-03-10 12:19:00.000000000 +0300
> > +++ linux/drivers/base/class.c	2005-03-10 13:59:27.000000000 +0300
> > @@ -307,12 +307,14 @@ static int class_hotplug(struct kset *ks
> >  	if (class_dev->dev) {
> >  		/* add physical device, backing this device  */
> >  		struct device *dev = class_dev->dev;
> > -		char *path = kobject_get_path(&dev->kobj, GFP_KERNEL);
> >  
> > -		add_hotplug_env_var(envp, num_envp, &i, buffer, buffer_size,
> > -				    &length, "PHYSDEVPATH=%s", path);
> > -		kfree(path);
> > +		if(kobject_name(&dev->kobj)) {
> > +			char *path = kobject_get_path(&dev->kobj, GFP_KERNEL);
> >  
> > +			add_hotplug_env_var(envp, num_envp, &i, buffer, buffer_size,
> > +				    &length, "PHYSDEVPATH=%s", path);
> > +			kfree(path);
> > +		}
> >  		/* add bus name of physical device */
> >  		if (dev->bus)
> >  			add_hotplug_env_var(envp, num_envp, &i,
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