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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: "Yavuz, Tuba" <tuba@ece.ufl.edu>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: Error in the hso driver
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2019 21:19:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190127201924.GA32046@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1548618592071.43193@ece.ufl.edu>

On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 07:49:52PM +0000, Yavuz, Tuba wrote:
> Here is a proposed patch:
> 
> --- drivers/net/usb/hso.c.orig	2019-01-27 14:45:58.232683119 -0500
> +++ drivers/net/usb/hso.c	2019-01-27 14:47:43.592683629 -0500
> @@ -2377,7 +2377,7 @@ static void hso_free_net_device(struct h
>  
>  	remove_net_device(hso_net->parent);
>  
> -	if (hso_net->net)
> +	if (hso_net->net && hso_net->net->reg_state == NETREG_REGISTERED)
>  		unregister_netdev(hso_net->net);
>  
>  	/* start freeing */

Hi Tuba

Using the free function from the probe often has problems. It is
better to put the cleanup at the end of the probe, and use a
collection of goto's and labels.

	   Andrew

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-01-27 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1548614320825.86428@ece.ufl.edu>
2019-01-27 19:35 ` Error in the hso driver Greg KH
2019-01-27 19:49   ` Yavuz, Tuba
2019-01-27 19:53     ` Greg KH
2019-01-27 20:19     ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2019-01-27 20:30       ` Yavuz, Tuba

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