On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 03:42:35PM -0700, Jim Radford wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 01:33:31PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 04:22:22PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > > > Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > >>Mark Lord wrote: > > > >>>Okay, from that part (above), the problem is obvious: > > > >>>in that the "MCT U232 converter now disconnected" appears, > > > >>>and then we continue to try and call the driver's method.. Oops! > > > > >IMHO shutdown() is using serial->port[] and bombs. > > > >Could you reverse the order here? > > > > Yup. Fixed. Tested. Works. > > > > This patch fixes the Oops that otherwise occurs whenever > > > a USB serial adapter is unplugged from a system, as well > > > the Oops seen when one is in use before resume (to RAM). > > > Argh, no, this change was done to help the ftdi drivers out. > > > Look at changeset d9a7ecacac5f8274d2afce09aadcf37bdb42b93a in Linus's > > tree from Jim Radford: > > > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d9a7ecacac5f8274d2afce09aadcf37bdb42b93a > > > > It makes this change because the usb-serial drivers need the port > > devices when the port_remove() callbacks happen. Otherwise you get an > > oops that way. > > > Jim, can you take a look at this and see if you can figure something > > out? > > The problem is really the > > serial->port[i] = NULL; > > line after device_unregister() which is used to flag "fake" devices > that don't need legacy cleanup later in the destrol_serial. That > flagging should be done using a *real* flag, and not by overloading > the ->port[i] pointer since we require it to be non-NULL in > ->shutdown() in all drivers that are not converted to new > ->port_probe()/->port_remove() framework (currently all except ftdi).
> I'll work on a patch to do that, but for now, I think you should apply > Mark's patch to revert the order change since the FTDI driver no > longer requires the correct ordering of device_unregister() and > ->shutdown(). Do not NULL serial->port[i] since it is used in ->shutdown(). This wasn't an issue until the order or ->shutdown() and device_unregister was corrected. Signed-Off: Jim Radford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c b/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c index 8511352..871c9a8 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c @@ -145,7 +145,6 @@ static void destroy_serial(struct kref *kref) for (i = 0; i < serial->num_ports; ++i) if (serial->port[i]->dev.parent != NULL) { device_unregister(&serial->port[i]->dev); - serial->port[i] = NULL; } if (serial->type->shutdown) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/