netdev - Re: usbnet: fix misc bugs

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <CACVXFVPJ71ZqZxTOEYDZ5VaW4C3H2qOmijQHDMi9EZJ-KDVacw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 3 May 2012 08:34:53 +0800
From:	Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: usbnet: fix misc bugs

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:14 AM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>
> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:51:01 +0800
>
>> These patches fix three bugs in usbnet:
>>       usbnet: fix leak of transfer buffer of dev->interrupt
>>       usbnet: fix failure handling in usbnet_probe
>>       usbnet: fix skb traversing races during unlink(v1)
>
> The third fix looks quite critical, but depends upon an interface
> not present in Linus's tree, nor mine.  That doesn't work.
>
> You need to find a way to propagate this fix into Linus's tree
> as well as all -stable trees that need that fix, but without
> this unmet dependency.

OK, usb_block_urb/usb_unlock_urb is not a must to fix the
problem, which is added to speed up the unlink. I will submit
a new version without them.

Thanks,
-- 
Ming Lei
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html