Sometimes, usb buses on which CDC ACM devices sit encounter a usb reset.
When this happens, particularly when CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE is on, we attempt to destroy the cdev for the associated tty and then rapidly re-initialise it. Since kobject destruction is not immediate, this potentially leaves us with cdev_init() calling kobject_init() on a kobject that is about to be destroyed. This turns out not to be such a good thing and this patch solves the problem by making the cdevs tty_operations->cdevs dynamically allocated. This may not be a problem in the wild (though I have some circumstantial evidence that it is), but I submit that we might want to think about fixing it anyway, since it makes debugging on systems with CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE=y and USB resets rather difficult (guess what I have been doing lately .. ). Patch is against e26081808edadfd257c6c9d81014e3b25e9a6118 (head of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git ). (in fact, you will still get an oops - which is the subject of another, more controversial, patchset ..) Richard. -- 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/
