[PATCH 44/78] USB: cypress_cy7c63: race disconnect/sysfs read-write leading to following NULL pointer

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
From: Oliver Neukum <[email protected]>

this driver sets intfdata to NULL while it still can be read and happily followed.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/usb/misc/cypress_cy7c63.c |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/misc/cypress_cy7c63.c b/drivers/usb/misc/cypress_cy7c63.c
index b63b5f3..d721380 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/misc/cypress_cy7c63.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/misc/cypress_cy7c63.c
@@ -246,11 +246,13 @@ static void cypress_disconnect(struct usb_interface *interface)
 	struct cypress *dev;
 
 	dev = usb_get_intfdata(interface);
-	usb_set_intfdata(interface, NULL);
 
 	/* remove device attribute files */
 	device_remove_file(&interface->dev, &dev_attr_port0);
 	device_remove_file(&interface->dev, &dev_attr_port1);
+	/* the intfdata can be set to NULL only after the
+	 * device files have been removed */
+	usb_set_intfdata(interface, NULL);
 
 	usb_put_dev(dev->udev);
 
-- 
1.5.1.2


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