HID: Fix race between disconnect and hiddev_ioctl

A USB HID device can be disconnected at any time.
If this happens right before or while hiddev_ioctl is in progress,
the hiddev_ioctl tries to access invalid hiddev->hid pointer.
When the hid device is disconnected, the hiddev_disconnect()
ends up with a call to hid_device_release() which frees
hid_device, but doesn't set the hiddev->hid pointer to NULL.
If the deallocated memory region has been re-used by the kernel,
this can cause a crash or memory corruption.

Since disconnect can happen at any time, we can't initialize
struct hid_device *hid = hiddev->hid at the beginning of ioctl
and then use it.

This change checks hiddev->exist flag while holding
the existancelock and uses hid_device only if it exists.

Signed-off-by: Valentine Barshak <vbarshak@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

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