Hello, Alan Stern.

Alan Stern wrote:
>> The endpoint directory shown in the oops report does not exist if I'm not 
>> thrashing the box with
>> winecfg. On Tejun Heo's suggestion, I put some debug code at the beginning 
>> of sysfs_release() to
>> print a stack-dump and the kobject's path if the attr->owner field contains 
>> 0x6b6b6b6b or
>> 0x5a5a5a5a poison:
>>
>> XXX debug trap owner=6b6b6b6b, path=/class/usb_endpoint/usbdev1.3_ep84
>> XXX debug stack-dump
>>  [<c018462a>] sysfs_release+0x70/0xa5
>>  [<c0151837>] __fput+0x96/0x13c
>>  [<c014f358>] filp_close+0x51/0x58
>>  [<c0150351>] sys_close+0x70/0xa7
>>  [<c0102bde>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x85
>>  [<c0270033>] unix_create1+0xa2/0xee
>>  =======================
> 
> This clearly indicates that something has been deallocated too early (or 
> equivalently, used too late).

What has been filled with the 6b pattern here is struct attribute not
some sysfs internal object.  Does USB allocate struct attribute
dynamically for any of its attributes?

-- 
tejun

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