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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
	"'Alan Stern'" <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	"'Peter Korsgaard'" <jacmet@sunsite.dk>,
	"'USB list'" <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
	"'Kernel development list'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kyungmin.park@samsung.com
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: kernel oops with g_serial USB gadget on 2.6.30
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:54:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200906240154.21349.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090624094240.4097db11@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

On Wednesday 24 June 2009, Alan Cox wrote:
> Looks to me like the gs_write_room function takes a lock already held
> when the driver calls tty_flip_buffer_push() - which will and can call
> back into the driver (eg for echo processing)

That doesn't seem to explain whatever null pointer was being
traversed though.

A lock-already-held problem would self-deadlock, not oops.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-24  8:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-22 12:04 PROBLEM: kernel oops with g_serial USB gadget on 2.6.30 Marek Szyprowski
2009-06-22 12:33 ` Peter Korsgaard
2009-06-22 13:55   ` Marek Szyprowski
2009-06-22 14:06     ` Peter Korsgaard
2009-06-22 14:06     ` Alan Stern
2009-06-22 14:12       ` Marek Szyprowski
2009-06-22 15:02         ` Alan Stern
2009-06-23  3:26         ` David Brownell
2009-06-23  6:41           ` Marek Szyprowski
2009-06-23  7:22             ` David Brownell
2009-06-23  8:37               ` Marek Szyprowski
2009-06-23  9:21                 ` Alan Cox
2009-06-23  9:33                   ` Marek Szyprowski
2009-06-23  9:54                     ` Alan Cox
2009-06-23 15:00                       ` Marek Szyprowski
2009-06-23 16:47                         ` David Brownell
2009-06-23 16:52                 ` David Brownell
2009-06-24  7:07                   ` Marek Szyprowski
2009-06-24  8:42                     ` Alan Cox
2009-06-24  8:54                       ` David Brownell [this message]
2009-06-24  8:49                     ` David Brownell
2009-06-24 10:30                       ` Marek Szyprowski
2009-06-24 23:43                         ` David Brownell

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