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authorChristian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>2010-05-25 23:58:47 +0200
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2010-05-26 14:49:48 -0400
commit5001960016bb53a1075bd9d62d7c067cd38c5a68 (patch)
treef08324c99732f7e53fc633926d3d1beacdaeae43 /drivers/net/wireless
parentb578bb490fb605c23c20b63995f26d3ab2cfb6e0 (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar9170/usb.c14
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 82ab532a492..a93dc18a45c 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)