Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Apr 2017 16:12:15 -0400 (EDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] net: hso: register netdev later to avoid a race condition | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Andreas Kemnade <andreas@kemnade.info> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 19:26:40 +0200
> If the netdev is accessed before the urbs are initialized, > there will be NULL pointer dereferences. That is avoided by > registering it when it is fully initialized. > > This case occurs e.g. if dhcpcd is running in the background > and the device is probed, either after insmod hso or > when the device appears on the usb bus. > > A backtrace is the following: ... > Reported-by: H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@goldelico.com> > Signed-off-by: Andreas Kemnade <andreas@kemnade.info>
Applied, thanks.
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