This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Subject: USB: fix BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at
/home/jeremy/hg/xen/paravirt/linux/drivers/usb/core/urb.c:524, in_atomic():1,
irqs_disabled():0
to my gregkh-2.6 tree. Its filename is
usb-fix-bug-sleeping-function-called-from-invalid-context-at-home-jeremy-hg-xen-paravirt-linux-drivers-usb-core-urb.c-524-in_atomic-1-irqs_disabled-0.patch
This tree can be found at
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/patches/
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jul 24 06:11:50 2007
From: Oliver Neukum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:13:42 +0200
Subject: USB: fix BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at
/home/jeremy/hg/xen/paravirt/linux/drivers/usb/core/urb.c:524, in_atomic():1,
irqs_disabled():0
To: Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kevin Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, USB
development list <linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Disposition: inline
Clearly there's a bug in
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c:usb_serial_put(). It shouldn't call
kref_put() while holding a spinlock.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c | 17 ++++++++---------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c
@@ -60,19 +60,19 @@ static struct usb_driver usb_serial_driv
static int debug;
static struct usb_serial *serial_table[SERIAL_TTY_MINORS]; /* initially
all NULL */
-static spinlock_t table_lock;
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(table_lock);
static LIST_HEAD(usb_serial_driver_list);
struct usb_serial *usb_serial_get_by_index(unsigned index)
{
struct usb_serial *serial;
- spin_lock(&table_lock);
+ mutex_lock(&table_lock);
serial = serial_table[index];
if (serial)
kref_get(&serial->kref);
- spin_unlock(&table_lock);
+ mutex_unlock(&table_lock);
return serial;
}
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ static struct usb_serial *get_free_seria
dbg("%s %d", __FUNCTION__, num_ports);
*minor = 0;
- spin_lock(&table_lock);
+ mutex_lock(&table_lock);
for (i = 0; i < SERIAL_TTY_MINORS; ++i) {
if (serial_table[i])
continue;
@@ -106,10 +106,10 @@ static struct usb_serial *get_free_seria
serial_table[i] = serial;
serial->port[j++]->number = i;
}
- spin_unlock(&table_lock);
+ mutex_unlock(&table_lock);
return serial;
}
- spin_unlock(&table_lock);
+ mutex_unlock(&table_lock);
return NULL;
}
@@ -172,9 +172,9 @@ static void destroy_serial(struct kref *
void usb_serial_put(struct usb_serial *serial)
{
- spin_lock(&table_lock);
+ mutex_lock(&table_lock);
kref_put(&serial->kref, destroy_serial);
- spin_unlock(&table_lock);
+ mutex_unlock(&table_lock);
}
/*****************************************************************************
@@ -1129,7 +1129,6 @@ static int __init usb_serial_init(void)
return -ENOMEM;
/* Initialize our global data */
- spin_lock_init(&table_lock);
for (i = 0; i < SERIAL_TTY_MINORS; ++i) {
serial_table[i] = NULL;
}
Patches currently in gregkh-2.6 which might be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] are
usb/usb-fix-bug-sleeping-function-called-from-invalid-context-at-home-jeremy-hg-xen-paravirt-linux-drivers-usb-core-urb.c-524-in_atomic-1-irqs_disabled-0.patch
usb/usb-nikon-d50-is-an-unusual-device.patch
usb/usb-yet-another-quirky-device.patch
usb/usb-more-quirky-devices.patch
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