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Subject: Re: rndis gadget: Inconsistent locking
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> I have just retested Michals patch but I have found another
> lockdep failure.
> 
> It looks like rndis_msg_parser() can call dev_get_stats> too:

Can someone provide a fully working patch then?
Or maybe just revert the one that caused all the
breakage??

Rememeber that this driver was working fine for
years before netdev changes added multiple bugs
because (at least) they didn't update all callers.