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authorJiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>2008-11-01 23:41:46 +0100
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2008-11-13 10:31:36 +0100
commite3e14de50dff86331b8f0d701e910146c0049bf5 (patch)
treeb6878bf88a22d12e0cad3fec63e5ccfa7217f921 /drivers/hid
parentHID: use single threaded work queue for hid_compat (diff)
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HID: fix start/stop cycle in usbhid driver
`stop' left out usbhid->urb* pointers and so the next `start' thought it needs to allocate nothing and used the memory pointers previously pointed to. This led to memory corruption and device malfunction. Also don't forget to clear disconnect flag on start which was left set by the previous `stop'. This fixes echo DEVICE > /sys/bus/hid/drivers/DRIVER/unbind echo DEVICE > /sys/bus/hid/drivers/DRIVER/bind failures. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/hid')
-rw-r--r--drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c b/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c
index 18e5ddd722cd..f0339aefc798 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c
@@ -781,6 +781,8 @@ static int usbhid_start(struct hid_device *hid)
unsigned int n, insize = 0;
int ret;
+ clear_bit(HID_DISCONNECTED, &usbhid->iofl);
+
usbhid->bufsize = HID_MIN_BUFFER_SIZE;
hid_find_max_report(hid, HID_INPUT_REPORT, &usbhid->bufsize);
hid_find_max_report(hid, HID_OUTPUT_REPORT, &usbhid->bufsize);
@@ -888,6 +890,9 @@ fail:
usb_free_urb(usbhid->urbin);
usb_free_urb(usbhid->urbout);
usb_free_urb(usbhid->urbctrl);
+ usbhid->urbin = NULL;
+ usbhid->urbout = NULL;
+ usbhid->urbctrl = NULL;
hid_free_buffers(dev, hid);
mutex_unlock(&usbhid->setup);
return ret;
@@ -924,6 +929,9 @@ static void usbhid_stop(struct hid_device *hid)
usb_free_urb(usbhid->urbin);
usb_free_urb(usbhid->urbctrl);
usb_free_urb(usbhid->urbout);
+ usbhid->urbin = NULL; /* don't mess up next start */
+ usbhid->urbctrl = NULL;
+ usbhid->urbout = NULL;
hid_free_buffers(hid_to_usb_dev(hid), hid);
mutex_unlock(&usbhid->setup);