From: Bernd Krumboeck <krumboeck@universalnet.at>
To: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Cc: linux-can@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] can: usb_8dev: unregister netdev before free()ing
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:20:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51C0C11E.1090705@universalnet.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51C0A820.3010102@pengutronix.de>
Am 2013-06-18 20:34, schrieb Marc Kleine-Budde:
> On 06/18/2013 08:23 PM, Bernd Krumboeck wrote:
>> 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
>
> Can I have you Acked-by or Reviewed-by?
>
> Marc
>
Yes, of course.
Please add "Reviewed-by: Bernd Krumboeck <krumboeck@universalnet.at>".
regards,
Bernd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-18 20:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-18 12:57 [PATCH] can: usb_8dev: unregister netdev before free()ing Marc Kleine-Budde
2013-06-18 18:23 ` Bernd Krumboeck
2013-06-18 18:34 ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2013-06-18 20:20 ` Bernd Krumboeck [this message]
2013-06-18 20:21 ` Marc Kleine-Budde
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2013-06-19 7:02 pull-request: can 2013-06-19 Marc Kleine-Budde
2013-06-19 7:02 ` [PATCH] can: usb_8dev: unregister netdev before free()ing Marc Kleine-Budde
2013-06-19 16:29 ` Oliver Hartkopp
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