While trying to figure out the best way to handle an odd mouse, I found that we oopsed when doing a rmmod on usbhid while someone had a USB device open through evdev. We try to loop through evdev->list, calling kill_fasync on each member, however by the time we try to get the next pointer, we have already freed the member and poisoned the next/last. The fix is fairly simple, and if nobody objects I think we should try and get this into -stable too. Signed-off-by: "Zephaniah E. Hull" <[email protected]> diff -ur linux-test/drivers/input/evdev.c linux-2.6/drivers/input/evdev.c --- linux-test/drivers/input/evdev.c 2006-07-24 23:36:01.000000000 -0400 +++ linux-2.6/drivers/input/evdev.c 2006-08-07 11:41:13.000000000 -0400 @@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ static void evdev_disconnect(struct input_handle *handle) { struct evdev *evdev = handle->private; - struct evdev_list *list; + struct evdev_list *list, *next; sysfs_remove_link(&input_class.subsys.kset.kobj, evdev->name); class_device_destroy(&input_class, @@ -669,7 +669,7 @@ if (evdev->open) { input_close_device(handle); wake_up_interruptible(&evdev->wait); - list_for_each_entry(list, &evdev->list, node) + list_for_each_entry_safe(list, next, &evdev->list, node) kill_fasync(&list->fasync, SIGIO, POLL_HUP); } else evdev_free(evdev); -- 1024D/E65A7801 Zephaniah E. Hull <[email protected]> 92ED 94E4 B1E6 3624 226D 5727 4453 008B E65A 7801 CCs of replies from mailing lists are requested. "Sir," barked one of those useless aristocratic generals to William Howard Russell, the great Times war correspondent, "I do not like what you write." "Then, sir," retorted Russell, "I suggest you do not do what I write about."
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