From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757241AbXG0ESh (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:18:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751176AbXG0ESb (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:18:31 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.191]:23502 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750957AbXG0ESa (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:18:30 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=RYXcdGlm65hDJX0iYDMlUagcKhAeaL0zF50PEr+ovjamM/Qz/xKfhydPttsISw1Y5fzVH1sX80/FxZOIyCJGLw2G2iEm7h8F/9Ary6rbbK1A7ZWRYO/xejTyrIO5JiFKuqZjVYsSe8Pn9YC6nMt0lD9AUgJHhhbBCgS5tWK8xgA= Message-ID: <46A97210.1090605@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:18:24 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070307) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Stern CC: Kernel development list Subject: Re: [Bug 8535] USB input death then system freeze References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.2.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Stern wrote: > Tejun: > > Please take a look at comment #50 in Bugzilla 8535: > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8535#c50 > > There have been several reports like this one recently of BUGs > occurring in release_sysfs_dirent() during device unregistration. > Obviously a use-after-free issue, probably caused by a refcounting > error. > > Is there already a patch available to fix it? http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/556682/raw Does this patch fix the problem? -- tejun