USB: core: Don't hold device lock while reading the "descriptors" sysfs file
Ever since commit 83e83ecb ("usb: core: get config and string descriptors for unauthorized devices") was merged in 2013, there has been no mechanism for reallocating the rawdescriptors buffers in struct usb_device after the initial enumeration. Before that commit, the buffers would be deallocated when a device was deauthorized and reallocated when it was authorized and enumerated. This means that the locking in the read_descriptors() routine is not needed, since the buffers it reads will never be reallocated while the routine is running. This locking can interfere with user programs trying to read a hub's descriptors via sysfs while new child devices of the hub are being initialized, since the hub is locked during this procedure. Since the locking in read_descriptors() hasn't been needed for over nine years, we can remove it. Reported-and-tested-by: Troels Liebe Bentsen <troels@connectedcars.dk> Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Y9l+wDTRbuZABzsE@rowland.harvard.eduSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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