From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965225AbXAJW4k (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:56:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965229AbXAJW4k (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:56:40 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:43218 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965225AbXAJW4j (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:56:39 -0500 Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:56:29 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Alan Stern Cc: Oliver Neukum , linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Andrew Morton , Greg KH , kernel list Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.20-rc4: null pointer deref in khubd Message-ID: <20070110225629.GK3700@elf.ucw.cz> References: <200701102054.57303.oliver@neukum.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > The obvious change with this device is that usb_set_configuration() is never > > called, but that should not matter. > > No, I think you're barking up the wrong tree. > > Pavel, did you have CONFIG_USB_MULTITHREAD_PROBE turned on? I bet you did > -- there's no other way to generate the messages in your syslog. Yep, you are right. > Don't use that kconfig option. It's broken (as you saw) and needs to be > either removed or replaced. Perhaps it should be disabled before 2.6.20? This is actually regression... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html