Re: Possible race condition in usb-serial.c

Greg KH
2006-12-20T22:53:22Z

On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 02:39:39PM -0800, J wrote:
> Thank you for your reply.
>
> > Which usb-serial driver are you having problems
> > with? What is the oops trace?
> > What version of the 2.4 kernel are you using?
>
> I was told to fix an old embedded device, which my
> company bought from somebody many years ago.
> It appears to have kernel 2.4.9 and a patched version
> of visor.c.

Ugh, old versions of the visor driver had lots of races on the
disconnect path. Good luck trying to fix all of them, it took until the
2.6 kernel to get all of the reported oopses fixed.

greg k-h