Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2018-10-04

Re: [PATCH] net/usb: cancel pending work when unbinding smsc75xx

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2018-10-04 20:52:06
Also in: linux-usb, lkml

From: Yu Zhao <redacted>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 17:04:30 -0600
Cancel pending work before freeing smsc75xx private data structure
during binding. This fixes the following crash in the driver:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000050
IP: mutex_lock+0x2b/0x3f
<snipped>
Workqueue: events smsc75xx_deferred_multicast_write [smsc75xx]
task: ffff8caa83e85700 task.stack: ffff948b80518000
RIP: 0010:mutex_lock+0x2b/0x3f
<snipped>
Call Trace:
 smsc75xx_deferred_multicast_write+0x40/0x1af [smsc75xx]
 process_one_work+0x18d/0x2fc
 worker_thread+0x1a2/0x269
 ? pr_cont_work+0x58/0x58
 kthread+0xfa/0x10a
 ? pr_cont_work+0x58/0x58
 ? rcu_read_unlock_sched_notrace+0x48/0x48
 ret_from_fork+0x22/0x40

Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <redacted>
Applied and queued up for -stable.
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