Patch "cdc_ncm: do not call usbnet_link_change from cdc_ncm_bind" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    cdc_ncm: do not call usbnet_link_change from cdc_ncm_bind

to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     cdc_ncm-do-not-call-usbnet_link_change-from-cdc_ncm_bind.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 4d06dd537f95683aba3651098ae288b7cbff8274 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Bj=C3=B8rn=20Mork?= <bjorn@mork.no>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 21:15:36 +0100
Subject: cdc_ncm: do not call usbnet_link_change from cdc_ncm_bind
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From: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>

commit 4d06dd537f95683aba3651098ae288b7cbff8274 upstream.

usbnet_link_change will call schedule_work and should be
avoided if bind is failing. Otherwise we will end up with
scheduled work referring to a netdev which has gone away.

Instead of making the call conditional, we can just defer
it to usbnet_probe, using the driver_info flag made for
this purpose.

Fixes: 8a34b0ae8778 ("usbnet: cdc_ncm: apply usbnet_link_change")
Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c |   20 +++++---------------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c
@@ -952,23 +952,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cdc_ncm_select_altsett
 
 static int cdc_ncm_bind(struct usbnet *dev, struct usb_interface *intf)
 {
-	int ret;
-
 	/* MBIM backwards compatible function? */
 	if (cdc_ncm_select_altsetting(intf) != CDC_NCM_COMM_ALTSETTING_NCM)
 		return -ENODEV;
 
 	/* The NCM data altsetting is fixed */
-	ret = cdc_ncm_bind_common(dev, intf, CDC_NCM_DATA_ALTSETTING_NCM);
-
-	/*
-	 * We should get an event when network connection is "connected" or
-	 * "disconnected". Set network connection in "disconnected" state
-	 * (carrier is OFF) during attach, so the IP network stack does not
-	 * start IPv6 negotiation and more.
-	 */
-	usbnet_link_change(dev, 0, 0);
-	return ret;
+	return cdc_ncm_bind_common(dev, intf, CDC_NCM_DATA_ALTSETTING_NCM);
 }
 
 static void cdc_ncm_align_tail(struct sk_buff *skb, size_t modulus, size_t remainder, size_t max)
@@ -1510,7 +1499,8 @@ static void cdc_ncm_status(struct usbnet
 
 static const struct driver_info cdc_ncm_info = {
 	.description = "CDC NCM",
-	.flags = FLAG_POINTTOPOINT | FLAG_NO_SETINT | FLAG_MULTI_PACKET,
+	.flags = FLAG_POINTTOPOINT | FLAG_NO_SETINT | FLAG_MULTI_PACKET
+			| FLAG_LINK_INTR,
 	.bind = cdc_ncm_bind,
 	.unbind = cdc_ncm_unbind,
 	.manage_power = usbnet_manage_power,
@@ -1523,7 +1513,7 @@ static const struct driver_info cdc_ncm_
 static const struct driver_info wwan_info = {
 	.description = "Mobile Broadband Network Device",
 	.flags = FLAG_POINTTOPOINT | FLAG_NO_SETINT | FLAG_MULTI_PACKET
-			| FLAG_WWAN,
+			| FLAG_LINK_INTR | FLAG_WWAN,
 	.bind = cdc_ncm_bind,
 	.unbind = cdc_ncm_unbind,
 	.manage_power = usbnet_manage_power,
@@ -1536,7 +1526,7 @@ static const struct driver_info wwan_inf
 static const struct driver_info wwan_noarp_info = {
 	.description = "Mobile Broadband Network Device (NO ARP)",
 	.flags = FLAG_POINTTOPOINT | FLAG_NO_SETINT | FLAG_MULTI_PACKET
-			| FLAG_WWAN | FLAG_NOARP,
+			| FLAG_LINK_INTR | FLAG_WWAN | FLAG_NOARP,
 	.bind = cdc_ncm_bind,
 	.unbind = cdc_ncm_unbind,
 	.manage_power = usbnet_manage_power,


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bjorn@mork.no are

queue-3.18/cdc_ncm-do-not-call-usbnet_link_change-from-cdc_ncm_bind.patch