linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] usb: gadget: f_fs: don't free buffer prematurely

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Date:   Tue, 19 Mar 2019 16:41:24 -0700
From:   John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
To:     fei.yang@...el.com
Cc:     Felipe Balbi <balbi@...nel.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jerry Zhang <zhangjerry@...gle.com>, andrzej.p@...labora.com,
        Vincent Pelletier <plr.vincent@...il.com>,
        jingx.shen@...el.com, Linux USB List <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: gadget: f_fs: don't free buffer prematurely

On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 4:25 PM <fei.yang@...el.com> wrote:
>
> From: Fei Yang <fei.yang@...el.com>
>
> 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.

Yay!  Perfect! I was up late last night chasing this crash, but
couldn't de-thread what the problem was.
So very happy to see this patch!

I'll test it here shortly!

thanks
-john