Re: [PATCH] staging: usbip: stub_dev: Fixed oops during removal of usbip_host

From: navin patidar
Date: Tue Sep 18 2012 - 05:32:09 EST


On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 09:30:06AM +0530, navin patidar wrote:
>> stub_device_reset should set kernel thread pointers to NULL.
>> so that at the time of usbip_host removal stub_shoutdown_connection
>> doesn't try to kill kernel threads which are already killed.
>>
>
> If you have the Oops output, that's always nice to put in the commit
> message.

i'll surely keep this in mind before submitting further patches.

> Why don't you set the pointers to NULL in stub_shutdown_connection()
> since that's where you actually kill the threads. Setting them to
> NULL in stub_device_reset() will (sometimes) solve the problem but
> it gives you a new problem of a resource leak.

stub_device_reset() always gets executed after
stub_shutdown_connection() , never before.


>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>

--navin-patidar
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