Patch "usbnet: cleanup after bind() in probe()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    usbnet: cleanup after bind() in probe()

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     usbnet-cleanup-after-bind-in-probe.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Sat Apr 16 10:02:53 PDT 2016
From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 11:31:10 +0100
Subject: usbnet: cleanup after bind() in probe()

From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>

[ Upstream commit 1666984c8625b3db19a9abc298931d35ab7bc64b ]

In case bind() works, but a later error forces bailing
in probe() in error cases work and a timer may be scheduled.
They must be killed. This fixes an error case related to
the double free reported in
http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg367669.html
and needs to go on top of Linus' fix to cdc-ncm.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <ONeukum@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c |    7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
@@ -1766,6 +1766,13 @@ out3:
 	if (info->unbind)
 		info->unbind (dev, udev);
 out1:
+	/* subdrivers must undo all they did in bind() if they
+	 * fail it, but we may fail later and a deferred kevent
+	 * may trigger an error resubmitting itself and, worse,
+	 * schedule a timer. So we kill it all just in case.
+	 */
+	cancel_work_sync(&dev->kevent);
+	del_timer_sync(&dev->delay);
 	free_netdev(net);
 out:
 	return status;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from oneukum@suse.com are

queue-4.4/usbnet-cleanup-after-bind-in-probe.patch