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 
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, USB development list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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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