From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:35770 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753548AbbHJJO3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Aug 2015 05:14:29 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 10:14:23 +0100 From: Luis Henriques To: Alan Stern Cc: Greg KH , USB list , Libusb mailing list , stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Add commit 3f2cee73b650 ("USB: usbfs: allow URBs to be reaped after disconnection") to -stable Message-ID: <20150810091423.GC11576@ares> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. > > Alan Stern > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Queuing it for the 3.16 kernel as well. Thanks! Cheers, -- Lu�s