Re: [PATCH] HID: i2c-hid: Do not free buffers in i2c_hid_stop()

[Jiri Kosina]

On Fri, 12 Dec 2014, Mika Westerberg wrote:

> When a hid driver that uses i2c-hid as transport is unloaded, the hid core
> will call i2c_hid_stop() which releases all the buffers associated with the
> device. This includes also the command buffer.
> 
> Now, when the i2c-hid driver itself is unloaded it tries to power down the
> device by sending it PWR_SLEEP command. Since the command buffer is already
> released we get following crash:
> 
>  [   79.691459] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at           (null)
>  [   79.691532] IP: [<ffffffffa05bc049>] __i2c_hid_command+0x49/0x310 [i2c_hid]
>  ...
>  [   79.693467] Call Trace:
>  [   79.693494]  [<ffffffff810424e1>] ? __unmask_ioapic+0x21/0x30
>  [   79.693537]  [<ffffffff81042855>] ? unmask_ioapic+0x25/0x40
>  [   79.693581]  [<ffffffffa05bc35b>] ? i2c_hid_set_power+0x4b/0xa0 [i2c_hid]
>  [   79.693632]  [<ffffffffa05bc3cf>] ? i2c_hid_runtime_resume+0x1f/0x30 [i2c_hid]
>  [   79.693689]  [<ffffffff814c08fb>] ? __rpm_callback+0x2b/0x70
>  [   79.693733]  [<ffffffff814c0961>] ? rpm_callback+0x21/0x90
>  [   79.693776]  [<ffffffff814c0dec>] ? rpm_resume+0x41c/0x600
>  [   79.693820]  [<ffffffff814c1e1c>] ? __pm_runtime_resume+0x4c/0x80
>  [   79.693868]  [<ffffffff814b8588>] ? __device_release_driver+0x28/0x100
>  [   79.693917]  [<ffffffff814b8d90>] ? driver_detach+0xa0/0xb0
>  [   79.693959]  [<ffffffff814b82cc>] ? bus_remove_driver+0x4c/0xb0
>  [   79.694006]  [<ffffffff810d1cfd>] ? SyS_delete_module+0x11d/0x1d0
>  [   79.694054]  [<ffffffff8165f107>] ? int_signal+0x12/0x17
>  [   79.694095]  [<ffffffff8165ee69>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x17
> 
> Fix this so that we only free buffers when the i2c-hid driver itself is
> removed.

Applied to for-3.19/upstream-fixes, thanks for fixing it.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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