On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:51:18AM -0800, J wrote: > Hi, > > During the last few days me and Oliver Neukum > exchanged some messages about fixing the usb-serial.c. > We came to an agreement and I made a patch > (which should be applied after 3 patches, which > were posted by Oliver on 1/2/07 at > linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net) > > We agreed that usb-serial had the following errors: > 1) serial table is not protected by locks. > kref_get() may be called on freed memory > 2) probe() exposes uninitialized devices > 3) disconnect() does not make sure there's no more IO > to unbound devices > 4) try_module_get() is called with unprotected > pointers > 5) there's a race between write() and disconnect() > > Oliver fixed most of these issues in 1/2/07 patch.
Hm, I never applied that, as I didn't know it should have been. Anyone care to resubmit it with the proper headers? Also, these patches don't have descriptions and the correct patch level. Care to redo that? thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
