Re: [PATCH] handle usb host allocation failures

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 03:17:32PM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> It looks like a host (like ohci or whatever) could try to allocate a new 
> usb_device structure with usb_alloc_dev and get back a valid pointer even if 
> the allocation of its private data failed.  I first saw this in the 2.4 
> sources, but it looks like 2.6 has the same problem.  This patch attempts to 
> fix it by freeing dev if the ->allocate() routine fails, and then returns 
> NULL instead of a potentially dangerous dev pointer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@xxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.

greg k-h
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