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    Fix oops on close of hot-unplugged FTDI serial converter · 80193195
    David Woodhouse authored
    Commit c45d6320 ("fix reference counting of ftdi_private") stopped
    ftdi_sio_port_remove() from directly freeing the port-private data, with
    the intention if the port was still open, it would be freed when
    ftdi_close() is eventually called and releases the last refcount on the
    structure.
    
    That's all very well, but ftdi_sio_port_remove() still contains a call
    to usb_set_serial_port_data(port, NULL) -- so by the time we get to
    ftdi_close() for the port which was unplugged, it _still_ oopses on
    dereferencing that NULL pointer, as it did before (and does in 2.6.29).
    
    The fix is just not to clear the private data in ftdi_sio_port_remove().
    Then the refcount is properly reduced to zero when the final kref_put()
    happens in ftdi_close().
    
    Remove a bogus comment too, while we're at it. And stop doing things
    inside "if (priv)" -- it must _always_ be there.
    
    Based loosely on an earlier patch by Daniel Mack, and suggestions by
    Alan Stern.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarDaniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
    Cc: stable@kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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