linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] HID: don't oops on suspend of non-bound devices

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Date:	Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:29:38 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] HID: don't oops on suspend of non-bound devices

On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Jiri Slaby wrote:

> Usbhid structure is allocated on start invoked only from probe
> of some driver. When there is no driver, the structure is null
> and causes null-dereference oopses.
> 
> Fix it by allocating the structure on probe and disconnect of
> the device itself. Also make sure we won't race between start
> and resume or stop and suspend respectively.
> 
> References: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11827

Applied, thanks.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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