Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:20:37 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] handle usb host allocation failures
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On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 03:17:32PM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> It looks like a host (like ohci or whatever) could try to allocate a new 
> usb_device structure with usb_alloc_dev and get back a valid pointer even if 
> the allocation of its private data failed.  I first saw this in the 2.4 
> sources, but it looks like 2.6 has the same problem.  This patch attempts to 
> fix it by freeing dev if the ->allocate() routine fails, and then returns 
> NULL instead of a potentially dangerous dev pointer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@sgi.com>

Applied, thanks.

greg k-h
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