From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757070Ab2ILXpC (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Sep 2012 19:45:02 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:64318 "EHLO mail-ob0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933396Ab2ILXox (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Sep 2012 19:44:53 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg KH , Fengguang Wu , =?UTF-8?q?Bj=C3=B8rn=20Mork?= , Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski , Hin-Tak Leung , Larry Finger , "John W. Linville" Subject: =?UTF-8?q?=5B=2030/46=5D=20USB=3A=20rtl8187=3A=20remove=20=5F=5Fdevinit*=20from=20the=20struct=20usb=5Fdevice=5Fid=20table?= Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:39:20 -0700 Message-Id: <20120912233820.822290972@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.10.1.362.g242cab3 In-Reply-To: <20120912233817.662663809@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20120912233817.662663809@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-2.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Greg KH 3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Greg Kroah-Hartman commit a3433179d0822ccfa8e80aa4d1d52843bd2dcc63 upstream. This structure needs to always stick around, even if CONFIG_HOTPLUG is disabled, otherwise we can oops when trying to probe a device that was added after the structure is thrown away. Thanks to Fengguang Wu and Bjørn Mork for tracking this issue down. Reported-by: Fengguang Wu Reported-by: Bjørn Mork CC: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski CC: Hin-Tak Leung CC: Larry Finger CC: "John W. Linville" Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187/dev.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187/dev.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187/dev.c @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ MODULE_AUTHOR("Larry Finger