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Commit b43706bf authored by Alan Stern's avatar Alan Stern Committed by Shreyas Narayan
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USB: fix invalid memory access in hub_activate()



Commit 8520f380 ("USB: change hub initialization sleeps to
delayed_work") changed the hub_activate() routine to make part of it
run in a workqueue.  However, the commit failed to take a reference to
the usb_hub structure or to lock the hub interface while doing so.  As
a result, if a hub is plugged in and quickly unplugged before the work
routine can run, the routine will try to access memory that has been
deallocated.  Or, if the hub is unplugged while the routine is
running, the memory may be deallocated while it is in active use.

This patch fixes the problem by taking a reference to the usb_hub at
the start of hub_activate() and releasing it at the end (when the work
is finished), and by locking the hub interface while the work routine
is running.  It also adds a check at the start of the routine to see
if the hub has already been disconnected, in which nothing should be
done.

Change-Id: I1e5a67d22a5b61898e5a2aab8ea87b0c08e1130c
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Reported-by: default avatarAlexandru Cornea <alexandru.cornea@intel.com>
Tested-by: default avatarAlexandru Cornea <alexandru.cornea@intel.com>
Fixes: 8520f380 ("USB: change hub initialization sleeps to delayed_work")
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Git-commit: e50293ef9775c5f1cf3fcc093037dd6a8c5684ea
Git-repo:  https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git


Signed-off-by: default avatarRavi Kumar Siddojigari <rsiddoji@codeaurora.org>
parent 848991c9
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