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HID: fix possible deadlock in usbhid_close()
authorOliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:12:12 +0000 (17:12 +0200)
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:25:01 +0000 (17:25 +0200)
commit89092ddd7aca598e3b8874f7a49216e7917d8f3f
tree138fe216f5659a8022bf45cc319e18a3e0595a2etree | snapshot
parent2feaace40e5c3133fea795333402f30929a200d9commit | diff
HID: fix possible deadlock in usbhid_close()

This patch switches usbhid_close() from flush_scheduled_work() to canceling
the outstanding work. This fixes a possible deadlock due to work taking
the mutex usbhid_close() holds. Lockdep reported the problem.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
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Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c diff | blob | history
ep93xx device tree rework repo: git://git.maquefel.me/linux.git