[patch] usb-skeleton leaking locks on open.

This weekend I was hacking around with a trivial USB driver for talking
to the boot load firmware of a USB Bit Whacker.  It's running the
MicroChip Pic18 boot loader firmware and I'm putting together a flash
program for writing new FW to the thing.

Anyway in my use of the usb-skeleton.c as my starting point I discovered
my test program was getting hung up after attempting to write a buffer.
The application and driver where hung in a way that required me to
reboot to get it to clean up so I could try again.

It turned out the code path through skel_open can grap the driver's
io_mutex lock and forget to release it.

The following patch fixes the problem for me.

--mgross

Signed-off-by: Mark Gross <[email protected]>

diff -urN -X linux-2.6.23-rc7/Documentation/dontdiff linux-2.6.23-rc7/drivers/usb/usb-skeleton.c linux-2.6.23-rc7-bugfix/drivers/usb/usb-skeleton.c
--- linux-2.6.23-rc7/drivers/usb/usb-skeleton.c	2007-09-24 08:57:54.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.23-rc7-bugfix/drivers/usb/usb-skeleton.c	2007-09-24 09:01:43.000000000 -0700
@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@
 
 	/* save our object in the file's private structure */
 	file->private_data = dev;
+	mutex_unlock(&dev->io_mutex);
 
 exit:
 	return retval;

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft
Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005.
http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/
_______________________________________________
[email protected]
To unsubscribe, use the last form field at:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel