USB: fix invalid memory access in hub_activate()
commit e50293ef upstream. Commit 8520f380 ("USB: change hub initialization sleeps to delayed_work") changed the hub_activate() routine to make part of it run in a workqueue. However, the commit failed to take a reference to the usb_hub structure or to lock the hub interface while doing so. As a result, if a hub is plugged in and quickly unplugged before the work routine can run, the routine will try to access memory that has been deallocated. Or, if the hub is unplugged while the routine is running, the memory may be deallocated while it is in active use. This patch fixes the problem by taking a reference to the usb_hub at the start of hub_activate() and releasing it at the end (when the work is finished), and by locking the hub interface while the work routine is running. It also adds a check at the start of the routine to see if the hub has already been disconnected, in which nothing should be done. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Reported-by: Alexandru Cornea <alexandru.cornea@intel.com> Tested-by: Alexandru Cornea <alexandru.cornea@intel.com> Fixes: 8520f380 ("USB: change hub initialization sleeps to delayed_work") Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> [ luis: backported to 3.16: - Added forward declaration of hub_release() which mainline had with commit 32a69589 ("usb: hub: convert khubd into workqueue") ] Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
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