On Thu, 17 Mar 2016, Nicolai Stange wrote:
> With commit 69bec7259853 ("USB: core: let USB device know device node"),
> the port1 argument of usb_alloc_dev() gets overwritten as follows:
>
> ... usb_alloc_dev(..., unsigned port1)
> {
> ...
> if (!parent->parent) {
> port1 = usb_hcd_find_raw_port_number(..., port1);
> }
> ...
> }
>
> Later on, this now overwritten port1 gets assigned to ->portnum:
>
> dev->portnum = port1;
>
> However, since xhci_find_raw_port_number() isn't idempotent, the
> aforementioned commit causes a number of KASAN splats like the following:
...
> Fix this by not overwriting the port1 argument in usb_alloc_dev(), but
> storing the raw port number as required by OF in an additional variable,
> raw_port.
>
> Fixes: 69bec7259853 ("USB: core: let USB device know device node")
> Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicsta...@gmail.com>
> ---
> Applicable to linux-next-20160317
>
> Changes to v1:
> - Initialize raw_port with port1
Acked-by: Alan Stern <st...@rowland.harvard.edu>
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