From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: subashab@codeaurora.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, stranche@codeaurora.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: qualcomm: rmnet: Fix incorrect assignment of real_dev
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2018 19:46:45 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181109.194645.1821451995900774674.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1541814987-28403-1-git-send-email-subashab@codeaurora.org>
From: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@codeaurora.org>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 18:56:27 -0700
> A null dereference was observed when a sysctl was being set
> from userspace and rmnet was stuck trying to complete some actions
> in the NETDEV_REGISTER callback. This is because the real_dev is set
> only after the device registration handler completes.
...
> Fixes: b752eff5be24 ("net: qualcomm: rmnet: Implement ndo_get_iflink")
> Signed-off-by: Sean Tranchetti <stranche@codeaurora.org>
> Signed-off-by: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@codeaurora.org>
Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-10 13:30 UTC|newest]
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2018-11-10 1:56 [PATCH net] net: qualcomm: rmnet: Fix incorrect assignment of real_dev Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan
2018-11-10 3:46 ` David Miller [this message]
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