Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:59:19 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jiri Kosina <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix hiddev's use of usb_find_interface |
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On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Guillaume Chazarain wrote:
> > Yeah -- Guillaume, I think that you are actually seeing symptoms of > > intfdata being bogus. Could you please try with any kernel with commit > > 9c9e54a8df0be48 ("HID: hiddev: fix memory corruption due to invalid > > intfdata") applied (which is the one Arnd is talking about) and report > > back whether the problem is fixed by it? > > I also saw the problem with 2.6.36-rc3. My problem is with > usb_find_interface(&hiddev_driver) not finding anything and > 9c9e54a8df0be48aa359744f412377cc55c3b7d2 did not change this line. > > In its current state I don't understand how hiddev_open() can possibly > work. I see people reporting suspend issues and stack traces in dmesg > but nobody reporting the driver being non-functioning, which is what > I'm doing here.
You are right. I have now applied your patch, thanks a lot for tracking it down.
-- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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