On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 10. Januar 2007 18:31 schrieb Alan Stern:
> > > Regarding the bug this device uncovers, it seems to me that this in
> > > drivers/base/core.c
> > > if (parent)
> > > klist_add_tail(&dev->knode_parent, &parent->klist_children);
> > > should make knode_parent a valid node under all circumstances.
> > > Hm.
> >
> > I haven't seen the original bug report. Where does the NULL pointer deref
> > occur?
>
> Apparently here: drivers/base/core.c:
>
> void device_del(struct device * dev)
> {
> struct device * parent = dev->parent;
> struct class_interface *class_intf;
>
> if (parent)
> klist_del(&dev->knode_parent);
>
> The obvious change with this device is that usb_set_configuration() is never
> called, but that should not matter.
No, I think you're barking up the wrong tree.
Pavel, did you have CONFIG_USB_MULTITHREAD_PROBE turned on? I bet you did
-- there's no other way to generate the messages in your syslog.
Don't use that kconfig option. It's broken (as you saw) and needs to be
either removed or replaced.
Alan Stern
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