Re: [PATCH] HID: Check whether if the hidraw is NULL pointer before release.

From	Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] HID: Check whether if the hidraw is NULL pointer before release.
Date	2016-02-05 14:40 +0100
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On Tue, 2 Feb 2016, shenpengru@gmail.com wrote:

> From: shenpengru <shenpengru@xiaomi.com>
> 
> The logic of service which operate hidraw device in user-space may
> not correct, sometimes it may release hidraw dev for more than once.
> In order to prevent this situation, we need to make the driver more
> robust.

Hmm .. how would you call close(fd) twice on the same descriptor and let 
it pass fput()?

I'd like to better understand how we ended up in this situation. Could you 
please provide more details?

Thanks a lot,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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