Re: [PATCH] More USB fixes for 2.5.68

From: Greg KH (greg@kroah.com)
Date: Thu Apr 24 2003 - 18:47:32 EST


ChangeSet 1.1165.2.4, 2003/04/23 12:05:40-07:00, david-b@pacbell.net

[PATCH] usb: fix (rare?) disconnect

It's not good to dereference pointers before checking
them for null. Seen once on a faulty device init,
which I don't think I'd ever seen before "in the wild".
(Caused by some other 2.5.68 strangeness.)

 drivers/usb/core/usb.c | 14 +++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff -Nru a/drivers/usb/core/usb.c b/drivers/usb/core/usb.c
--- a/drivers/usb/core/usb.c Thu Apr 24 16:27:39 2003
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/usb.c Thu Apr 24 16:27:39 2003
@@ -791,14 +791,22 @@
 void usb_disconnect(struct usb_device **pdev)
 {
         struct usb_device *dev = *pdev;
- struct usb_bus *bus = dev->bus;
- struct usb_operations *ops = bus->op;
+ struct usb_bus *bus;
+ struct usb_operations *ops;
         int i;
 
         might_sleep ();
 
- if (!dev)
+ if (!dev) {
+ pr_debug ("%s nodev\n", __FUNCTION__);
                 return;
+ }
+ bus = dev->bus;
+ if (!bus) {
+ pr_debug ("%s nobus\n", __FUNCTION__);
+ return;
+ }
+ ops = bus->op;
 
         *pdev = NULL;
 

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