linux/drivers/usb
Alan Stern cde217a556 USB: fix crash when URBs are unlinked after the device is gone
This patch (as1151) protects usbcore against drivers that try to
unlink an URB after the URB's device or bus have been removed.  The
core does not currently check for this, and certain drivers can cause
a crash if they are running while an HCD is unloaded.

Certainly it would be best to fix the guilty drivers.  But a little
defensive programming doesn't hurt, especially since it appears that
quite a few drivers need to be fixed.

The patch prevents the problem by grabbing a reference to the device
while an unlink is in progress and using a new spinlock to synchronize
unlinks with device removal.  (There's no need to acquire a reference
to the bus as well, since the device structure itself keeps a
reference to the bus.)  In addition, the kerneldoc is updated to
indicate that URBs should not be unlinked after the disconnect method
returns.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-29 14:54:40 -07:00
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atm USB: Speedtouch: add pre_reset and post_reset routines 2008-10-22 10:05:28 -07:00
c67x00 usb/c67x00 endianness annotations 2008-06-04 08:06:01 -07:00
class USB: fix memory leak in cdc-acm 2008-10-22 10:05:29 -07:00
core USB: fix crash when URBs are unlinked after the device is gone 2008-10-29 14:54:40 -07:00
gadget USB: Fix unneeded endpoint check in pxa27x_udc 2008-10-22 10:05:28 -07:00
host Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6 2008-10-23 10:09:50 -07:00
image USB: remove err() macro from more usb drivers 2008-10-17 14:41:14 -07:00
misc USB: usbtest.c: length, sglen and vary are unsigned, so cannot be negative 2008-10-22 10:05:28 -07:00
mon usbmon: fix tiny race exposed by the fastboot patches 2008-10-17 14:40:57 -07:00
musb usb: musb: remove dead code from procfs 2008-10-17 14:40:59 -07:00
serial USB: support Huawei data card product IDs 2008-10-22 10:05:28 -07:00
storage USB: Unusual dev for Mio moov 330 gps 2008-10-22 10:05:29 -07:00
wusbcore uwb: don't use printk_ratelimit() so often 2008-10-16 13:56:53 +01:00
Kconfig Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6 2008-10-23 10:09:50 -07:00
Makefile wusb: add HWA host controller driver 2008-09-17 16:54:31 +01:00
README USB: fix directory references in usb/README 2007-11-28 13:58:34 -08:00
usb-skeleton.c USB: remove unnecessary type casting of urb->context 2008-04-24 21:16:55 -07:00

To understand all the Linux-USB framework, you'll use these resources:

    * This source code.  This is necessarily an evolving work, and
      includes kerneldoc that should help you get a current overview.
      ("make pdfdocs", and then look at "usb.pdf" for host side and
      "gadget.pdf" for peripheral side.)  Also, Documentation/usb has
      more information.

    * The USB 2.0 specification (from www.usb.org), with supplements
      such as those for USB OTG and the various device classes.
      The USB specification has a good overview chapter, and USB
      peripherals conform to the widely known "Chapter 9".

    * Chip specifications for USB controllers.  Examples include
      host controllers (on PCs, servers, and more); peripheral
      controllers (in devices with Linux firmware, like printers or
      cell phones); and hard-wired peripherals like Ethernet adapters.

    * Specifications for other protocols implemented by USB peripheral
      functions.  Some are vendor-specific; others are vendor-neutral
      but just standardized outside of the www.usb.org team.

Here is a list of what each subdirectory here is, and what is contained in
them.

core/		- This is for the core USB host code, including the
		  usbfs files and the hub class driver ("khubd").

host/		- This is for USB host controller drivers.  This
		  includes UHCI, OHCI, EHCI, and others that might
		  be used with more specialized "embedded" systems.

gadget/		- This is for USB peripheral controller drivers and
		  the various gadget drivers which talk to them.


Individual USB driver directories.  A new driver should be added to the
first subdirectory in the list below that it fits into.

image/		- This is for still image drivers, like scanners or
		  digital cameras.
../input/	- This is for any driver that uses the input subsystem,
		  like keyboard, mice, touchscreens, tablets, etc.
../media/	- This is for multimedia drivers, like video cameras,
		  radios, and any other drivers that talk to the v4l
		  subsystem.
../net/		- This is for network drivers.
serial/		- This is for USB to serial drivers.
storage/	- This is for USB mass-storage drivers.
class/		- This is for all USB device drivers that do not fit
		  into any of the above categories, and work for a range
		  of USB Class specified devices. 
misc/		- This is for all USB device drivers that do not fit
		  into any of the above categories.