[patch 19/87] Fix oops on close of hot-unplugged FTDI serial converter

[Greg KH]

2.6.29-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 80193195f87ebca6d7417516d6edeb3969631c15 upstream.

Commit c45d6320 ("fix reference counting of ftdi_private") stopped
ftdi_sio_port_remove() from directly freeing the port-private data, with
the intention if the port was still open, it would be freed when
ftdi_close() is eventually called and releases the last refcount on the
structure.

That's all very well, but ftdi_sio_port_remove() still contains a call
to usb_set_serial_port_data(port, NULL) -- so by the time we get to
ftdi_close() for the port which was unplugged, it _still_ oopses on
dereferencing that NULL pointer, as it did before (and does in 2.6.29).

The fix is just not to clear the private data in ftdi_sio_port_remove().
Then the refcount is properly reduced to zero when the final kref_put()
happens in ftdi_close().

Remove a bogus comment too, while we're at it. And stop doing things
inside "if (priv)" -- it must _always_ be there.

Based loosely on an earlier patch by Daniel Mack, and suggestions by
Alan Stern.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
 drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c |    9 +--------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c
@@ -1485,14 +1485,7 @@ static int ftdi_sio_port_remove(struct u
 
 	remove_sysfs_attrs(port);
 
-	/* all open ports are closed at this point
-	 *    (by usbserial.c:__serial_close, which calls ftdi_close)
-	 */
-
-	if (priv) {
-		usb_set_serial_port_data(port, NULL);
-		kref_put(&priv->kref, ftdi_sio_priv_release);
-	}
+	kref_put(&priv->kref, ftdi_sio_priv_release);
 
 	return 0;
 }


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