RE: [PROBLEM] usb hub malformed packets causes null pointer dereference

2015-12-16 Thread Alan Stern
On Wed, 16 Dec 2015, Cornea, Alexandru wrote: > Hello, > > We verified the updated patch and everything seems to be ok. All 61 USB > hub testcases pass. Thanks for testing. I will submit the patch. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in

RE: [PROBLEM] usb hub malformed packets causes null pointer dereference

2015-12-16 Thread Cornea, Alexandru
@vger.kernel.org; Maxim, Costel ; Moraru, Cristina Subject: RE: [PROBLEM] usb hub malformed packets causes null pointer dereference On Tue, 15 Dec 2015, Alan Stern wrote: > On Tue, 15 Dec 2015, Cornea, Alexandru wrote: > > > Hello, > > Apologies for the late response. > > We tried

RE: [PROBLEM] usb hub malformed packets causes null pointer dereference

2015-12-15 Thread Alan Stern
On Tue, 15 Dec 2015, Alan Stern wrote: > On Tue, 15 Dec 2015, Cornea, Alexandru wrote: > > > Hello, > > Apologies for the late response. > > We tried the patch, and although the system does not crash anymore, another > > issue occurs. > > Depending on platform (Gigabyte GXBT, Galileo board),

RE: [PROBLEM] usb hub malformed packets causes null pointer dereference

2015-12-15 Thread Alan Stern
On Tue, 15 Dec 2015, Cornea, Alexandru wrote: > Hello, >Apologies for the late response. >We tried the patch, and although the system does not crash anymore, > another issue occurs. > >Depending on platform (Gigabyte GXBT, Galileo board), the USB port that is > used for testing o

RE: [PROBLEM] usb hub malformed packets causes null pointer dereference

2015-12-15 Thread Cornea, Alexandru
rn [mailto:st...@rowland.harvard.edu] Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2015 6:59 PM To: Cornea, Alexandru Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org; Maxim, Costel ; Moraru, Cristina Subject: Re: [PROBLEM] usb hub malformed packets causes null pointer dereference On Tue, 10 Nov 2015, Cornea, Alexandru wrote: > Hello, >

Re: [PROBLEM] usb hub malformed packets causes null pointer dereference

2015-11-12 Thread Alan Stern
On Tue, 10 Nov 2015, Cornea, Alexandru wrote: > Hello, > > We observed a kernel panic due to a null pointer dereference in the USB > stack while sending malformed USB hub packets. This is an interesting bug. Not least because it has nothing to do with the malformed packets -- it was trigg

[PROBLEM] usb hub malformed packets causes null pointer dereference

2015-11-10 Thread Cornea, Alexandru
Hello, We observed a kernel panic due to a null pointer dereference in the USB stack while sending malformed USB hub packets. Testing was done on a Galileo board, using kernel version 4.1.8 (image built with Yocto project). Output of /proc/version: Linux version 4.1.8-yocto-sta