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From: Bernd Krumboeck <krumboeck@universalnet.at>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] can: usb_8dev: unregister netdev before free()ing
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:23:30 +0200
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To: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
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Am 2013-06-18 14:57, schrieb Marc Kleine-Budde:
> The usb_8dev hardware has problems on some xhci USB hosts. The driver fails to
> read the firmware revision in the probe function. This leads to the following
> Oops:
>
>      [ 3356.635912] kernel BUG at net/core/dev.c:5701!
>
> The driver tries to free the netdev, which has already been registered, without
> unregistering it.
>
> This patch fixes the problem by unregistering the netdev in the error path.
>

Thank you for the patch!

I've applied it to my source tree:
https://github.com/krumboeck/usb2can


regards,
Bernd