Am Freitag, 12. Januar 2007 07:11 schrieb Greg KH:
> 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?
They were just for review and not application and clearly marked so.
I have no device to test this on and the changes are quite large.
I would like to know that they have been tested before inclusion,
but I'll redo them.
Regards
Oliver
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