From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: USB list <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
Libusb mailing list <libusb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Add commit 3f2cee73b650 ("USB: usbfs: allow URBs to be reaped after disconnection") to -stable
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 10:01:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150731170138.GA7715@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1507311045060.1984-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 10:56:20AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> Greg:
>
> The $SUBJECT commit was added in the 4.0 kernel, but I forgot to mark
> it for inclusion in the -stable kernels. The problem it fixes is a
> nasty one, affecting people who use libusb: When a device is
> disconnected while a libusb transfer is in progress, libusb never
> receives a completion notification for the transfer. This can result
> in a hang or a segmentation error, depending on how the userspace
> program tries to cope.
>
> The patch may require some context adjustment before it will apply to
> the longterm -stable trees, but I think it should be added.
Now queued up to 3.10 and 3.14-stable, thanks.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-31 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-31 14:56 Add commit 3f2cee73b650 ("USB: usbfs: allow URBs to be reaped after disconnection") to -stable Alan Stern
2015-07-31 17:01 ` Greg KH [this message]
2015-08-10 9:14 ` Luis Henriques
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