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| author | Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com> | 2010-05-25 23:58:47 +0200 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2010-05-26 14:49:48 -0400 |
| commit | 5001960016bb53a1075bd9d62d7c067cd38c5a68 (patch) | |
| tree | f08324c99732f7e53fc633926d3d1beacdaeae43 | |
| parent | b578bb490fb605c23c20b63995f26d3ab2cfb6e0 (diff) | |
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ar9170usb: fix read from freed driver context
Commit "ar9170: wait for asynchronous firmware loading"
introduced a bug, which is triggered by fatal errors
while the driver is initializing the device.
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 6b6b6bf7
IP: [<c117b567>] kobject_put+0x7/0x70
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/platform/hdaps/position
Modules linked in: ar9170usb [...]
Pid: 6246, comm: firmware/ar9170 Not tainted 2.6.34-wl #54
EIP: 0060:[<c117b567>] EFLAGS: 00010206 CPU: 0
EIP is at kobject_put+0x7/0x70
EAX: 6b6b6bd7 EBX: f4d3d0e0 ECX: f5ba9124 EDX: f6af2a7c
ESI: 00000000 EDI: f4d3d0e0 EBP: 00000000 ESP: f5e98f9c
DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
Process firmware/ar9170 (pid: 6246)
Stack:
c12532ed 00000246 f5bfaa70 f8487353 f4d3d0e0
Call Trace:
[<c12532ed>] ? device_release_driver+0x1d/0x30
[<f8487353>] ? ar9170_usb_firmware_failed+0x43/0x70 [ar9170usb]
[<c125983c>] ? request_firmware_work_func+0x2c/0x70
[<c1259810>] ? request_firmware_work_func+0x0/0x70
[<c10413f4>] ? kthread+0x74/0x80
[<c1041380>] ? kthread+0x0/0x80
[<c1003136>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10
Code: 40 d3 f2 ff 85 c0 89 c3 74 0a ba 44 86 4c c1 e8 [...]
EIP: [<c117b567>] kobject_put+0x7/0x70 SS:ESP 0068:f5e98f9c
CR2: 000000006b6b6bf7
---[ end trace e81abb992434b410 ]---
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar9170/usb.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar9170/usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar9170/usb.c index 82ab532..a93dc18 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar9170/usb.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar9170/usb.c @@ -739,17 +739,27 @@ err_out: static void ar9170_usb_firmware_failed(struct ar9170_usb *aru) { struct device *parent = aru->udev->dev.parent; + struct usb_device *udev; + + /* + * Store a copy of the usb_device pointer locally. + * This is because device_release_driver initiates + * ar9170_usb_disconnect, which in turn frees our + * driver context (aru). + */ + udev = aru->udev; complete(&aru->firmware_loading_complete); /* unbind anything failed */ if (parent) device_lock(parent); - device_release_driver(&aru->udev->dev); + + device_release_driver(&udev->dev); if (parent) device_unlock(parent); - usb_put_dev(aru->udev); + usb_put_dev(udev); } static void ar9170_usb_firmware_finish(const struct firmware *fw, void *context) |