On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 08:33:27AM +0200, Nemosoft Unv. wrote:
> Personally, I say the above piece of code is faulty. Refering to a
> pointer after you appearently deleted it, is just very bad programming
> practice. 

ACK ;-) And according to our CVS it is lurking around since March 2000.
There are a few similar actions in other portions of the code, but they are
correct (as far I can see...).

> I?d say, fix the usb-uhci file, and do a quick run on all other instances
> of list_del. I think most programmers got it right, or 2.4.10 kernels would
> be coming down all over the planet.

Fix attached. Please apply it.
-- 
         Georg Acher, [EMAIL PROTECTED]         
         http://www.in.tum.de/~acher/
          "Oh no, not again !" The bowl of petunias          
--- linux/drivers/usb/usb-uhci.c.org    Thu Sep 27 12:12:39 2001
+++ linux/drivers/usb/usb-uhci.c        Thu Sep 27 14:06:43 2001
@@ -2528,7 +2528,7 @@
        int i;
        int ret = 0;
        urb_priv_t *urb_priv = urb->hcpriv;
-       struct list_head *p = urb_priv->desc_list.next;
+       struct list_head *p = urb_priv->desc_list.next, *p_tmp;
        uhci_desc_t *desc = list_entry (urb_priv->desc_list.prev, uhci_desc_t, 
desc_list);
 
        dbg("urb contains iso request");
@@ -2578,8 +2578,9 @@
                dbg("process_iso: %i: len:%d %08x status:%x",
                     i, urb->iso_frame_desc[i].actual_length, 
le32_to_cpu(desc->hw.td.status),urb->iso_frame_desc[i].status);
 
-               list_del (p);
+               p_tmp = p;
                p = p->next;
+               list_del (p_tmp);
                delete_desc (s, desc);
        }
        

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