Re: [PATCH V2] usb: gadget: f_fs: don't free buffer prematurely

From: Josh Gao
Date: Wed Mar 20 2019 - 01:59:20 EST


On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 10:56 PM Josh Gao <jmgao@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 10:32 PM <fei.yang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > From: Fei Yang <fei.yang@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The following kernel panic happens due to the io_data buffer gets deallocated
> > before the async io is completed. Add a check for the case where io_data buffer
> > should be deallocated by ffs_user_copy_worker.
>
> It looks like this happened because data got renamed to io_data, which made the
> `data = NULL` marked with "Do not kfree the buffer in this function" not do
> what it was hoping. This should probably either delete the assignment above or
> fix the assignment to refer to io_data? (EIOCBQUEUED presumably can't come from
> elsewhere?)

(except ffs_free_buffer doesn't check for null, so probably the former)