[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "usbnet: cleanup after bind() in probe()" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Mon Apr 25 19:43:12 UTC 2016


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    usbnet: cleanup after bind() in probe()

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt9.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 2130a40cd75d9cc6e106c4e76476adcfb0569529 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum at suse.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 11:31:10 +0100
Subject: usbnet: cleanup after bind() in probe()

commit 1666984c8625b3db19a9abc298931d35ab7bc64b upstream.

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 at suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
index e049857..edbb2f3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
@@ -1754,6 +1754,13 @@ 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;
--
2.7.4





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