USB documentation: explain lifetime rules for unlinking URBs

This patch (as1534c) updates the documentation for usb_unlink_urb and
related functions.  It explains that the caller must prevent the URB
being unlinked from getting deallocated while the unlink is taking
place.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
CC: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/urb.c b/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
index 7239a73c1b8c..cd9b3a2cd8a7 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
@@ -539,6 +539,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(usb_submit_urb);
  * never submitted, or it was unlinked before, or the hardware is already
  * finished with it), even if the completion handler has not yet run.
  *
+ * The URB must not be deallocated while this routine is running.  In
+ * particular, when a driver calls this routine, it must insure that the
+ * completion handler cannot deallocate the URB.
+ *
  * Unlinking and Endpoint Queues:
  *
  * [The behaviors and guarantees described below do not apply to virtual
@@ -603,6 +607,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(usb_unlink_urb);
  * with error -EPERM.  Thus even if the URB's completion handler always
  * tries to resubmit, it will not succeed and the URB will become idle.
  *
+ * The URB must not be deallocated while this routine is running.  In
+ * particular, when a driver calls this routine, it must insure that the
+ * completion handler cannot deallocate the URB.
+ *
  * This routine may not be used in an interrupt context (such as a bottom
  * half or a completion handler), or when holding a spinlock, or in other
  * situations where the caller can't schedule().
@@ -640,6 +648,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(usb_kill_urb);
  * with error -EPERM.  Thus even if the URB's completion handler always
  * tries to resubmit, it will not succeed and the URB will become idle.
  *
+ * The URB must not be deallocated while this routine is running.  In
+ * particular, when a driver calls this routine, it must insure that the
+ * completion handler cannot deallocate the URB.
+ *
  * This routine may not be used in an interrupt context (such as a bottom
  * half or a completion handler), or when holding a spinlock, or in other
  * situations where the caller can't schedule().