From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oliver Neukum Subject: Re: [patch v2] net/usb: remove err() messages in few drivers Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:07:01 +0100 Message-ID: <200901131207.03724.oliver@neukum.org> References: <1231805322.12962.4.camel@tux.localhost> <200901130144.26162.david-b@pacbell.net> <208cbae30901130208xe47d222g6928cf4243ea1dd8@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "David Brownell" , davem@davemloft.net, "Greg KH" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org To: "Alexey Klimov" Return-path: Received: from smtp-out003.kontent.com ([81.88.40.217]:47279 "EHLO smtp-out003.kontent.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752434AbZAMLGc (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:06:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: <208cbae30901130208xe47d222g6928cf4243ea1dd8@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Am Tuesday 13 January 2009 11:08:27 schrieb Alexey Klimov: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:44 PM, David Brownell wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 January 2009, Oliver Neukum wrote: > >> > Ok, i'll reformat patch. Is it okay if i use kaweth->dev->dev, > >> > kaweth->net->dev and intf->dev ? Or switch to kaweth->net->dev > >> > (instead of dev->dev)? > >> > >> kaweth in kaweth_disconnect() frees the network device. Therefore > >> you cannot use it. You'd access freed memory. Pick one of the others > >> and stay with it. > > > > intf->dev is going to be "obviously correct", the others aren't. > > > > Is this patch touch kaweth_disconnect() ? I see dev_warn and dev_info > there. No dev_err. No, it does not. But you need to make sure that the devices you refer to in debug messages are always valid. Functions that you do touch may run after disconnect() has run. A debug message that oopses does no good. If you cannot make sure you pass a valid device to dev_err/info don't use them. It is as simple as that. Regards Oliver