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H A Dfile.cdiff 0026e00523a85b90a92a93ddf6660939ecef3e54 Tue Sep 21 21:01:53 CEST 2010 Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> USB: fix bug in initialization of interface minor numbers

Recent changes in the usbhid layer exposed a bug in usbcore. If
CONFIG_USB_DYNAMIC_MINORS is enabled then an interface may be assigned
a minor number of 0. However interfaces that aren't registered as USB
class devices also have their minor number set to 0, during
initialization. As a result usb_find_interface() may return the
wrong interface, leading to a crash.

This patch (as1418) fixes the problem by initializing every
interface's minor number to -1. It also cleans up the
usb_register_dev() function, which besides being somewhat awkwardly
written, does not unwind completely on all its error paths.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Tested-by: Philip J. Turmel <philip@turmel.org>
Tested-by: Gabriel Craciunescu <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
Tested-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Matthias Bayer <jackdachef@gmail.com>
CC: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
H A Dmessage.cdiff 0026e00523a85b90a92a93ddf6660939ecef3e54 Tue Sep 21 21:01:53 CEST 2010 Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> USB: fix bug in initialization of interface minor numbers

Recent changes in the usbhid layer exposed a bug in usbcore. If
CONFIG_USB_DYNAMIC_MINORS is enabled then an interface may be assigned
a minor number of 0. However interfaces that aren't registered as USB
class devices also have their minor number set to 0, during
initialization. As a result usb_find_interface() may return the
wrong interface, leading to a crash.

This patch (as1418) fixes the problem by initializing every
interface's minor number to -1. It also cleans up the
usb_register_dev() function, which besides being somewhat awkwardly
written, does not unwind completely on all its error paths.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Tested-by: Philip J. Turmel <philip@turmel.org>
Tested-by: Gabriel Craciunescu <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
Tested-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Matthias Bayer <jackdachef@gmail.com>
CC: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>