On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 02:28:56PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Greg KH wrote: > > > So, what's next in this patch series? :) > > Funny you should ask... > > While writing those patches I noted a problem, that the USB device tree > can change while a process reading /proc/bus/usb/devices is traversing it, > leading to an oops when a pointer to a no-longer-existing child device is > dereferenced. The ensuing discussion led to the conclusion that the > devices' ->serialize locks should be acquired, top-down, while going > through the tree. > > That means changing the code that populates the devices file and changing > the code that adds and removes USB device structures. This patch takes > care of the first part. I'm delaying the second part because that section > of usbcore is still under change -- David Brownell's revisions have not > yet been fully integrated.
Fair enough, applied, thanks. greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
