From: David Fries Early abort if the master driver or the hardware goes away in the middle of a bus search operation. The alternative is to spam the print buffer up to 64*64 times with read errors in the case of USB. Signed-off-by: David Fries Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/w1/w1.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff -puN drivers/w1/w1.c~w1-abort-search-early-on-on-exit drivers/w1/w1.c --- a/drivers/w1/w1.c~w1-abort-search-early-on-on-exit +++ a/drivers/w1/w1.c @@ -772,6 +772,11 @@ void w1_search(struct w1_master *dev, u8 /* extract the direction taken & update the device number */ tmp64 = (triplet_ret >> 2); rn |= (tmp64 << i); + + if (test_bit(W1_MASTER_NEED_EXIT, &dev->flags)) { + printk(KERN_INFO "Abort w1_search (exiting)\n"); + return; + } } if ( (triplet_ret & 0x03) != 0x03 ) { _