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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] gigaset: in file ops, check for device disconnect
 before anything else
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:43:40 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Date: Sun,  5 Apr 2009 18:39:33 +0200 (CEST)

> When the device is disconnected, the dev structure goes away, so
> trying to report another error via dev_printk is bound to oops.
> To avoid that, first check whether the device is still connected
> and return quietly if it isn't.
> 
> Impact: error handling
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
> Reported-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
> Tested-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>

Applied.