netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: qmi_wwan: fix Oops while disconnecting

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Date:	Sun, 24 Jun 2012 19:47:30 +0200
From:	Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>
To:	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
CC:	Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	Marius  Bjørnstad Kotsbak 
	<marius.kotsbak@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: qmi_wwan: fix Oops while disconnecting

Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org> wrote:
>Am Sonntag, 24. Juni 2012, 11:34:19 schrieb Bjørn Mork:
>
>> Sorry, I did not understand what you meant we should do here.  The
>extra
>> usb_set_intfdata(, NULL) in usbnet_disconnect() won't make any
>> difference for that piece of code, will it?
>
>The point is that if it may be set to NULL, we always want it to be set
>to
>NULL, so we catch bugs.
>
>> And the USB core ensures that intfdata is set to NULL before any
>> reprobing, so that will never be a problem.  That's the reason why it
>> seems redundant setting it in usbnet_disconnect().
>
>The point is that if there is a problem because intfdata is set to
>NULL,
>there is very likely a problem in form of a race condition, if intfdata
>were not set to NULL in usbnet's disconnect handler.

Thanks for explaining. Yes, that makes sense to me as well.

So then the original patch against qmi_wwan should go in, and we should leave usbnet as it is. Are everyone comfortable with that?


Bjørn


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