[PATCH][SRU][Xenial][Zesty] fix [0bda:8153] Realtek USB Ethernet leads to system hang

AceLan Kao acelan.kao at canonical.com
Thu Oct 5 02:19:21 UTC 2017


BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1720977

[Impact]
There is a USB Ethernet port, 0bda:8153, on Dell IE Docking.
After plugged in the docking, system hard hangs.

[Fix]
This issue has been fix after v4.11-rc4, so after bisecting the kernel, we found the first bad commit, and realized this issue is from Realtek USB Ethernet driver with a non-initialized list.
   98d068a r8152: fix the list rx_done may be used without initialization

[Test Case]
Verified on the Dell XPS and IE docking, and confirm this patch works.

[Regression Potential]
It's a one line patch and do the initialization of the list variable, there should be no any regression would be resulted from this commit.

hayeswang (1):
  r8152: fix the list rx_done may be used without initialization

 drivers/net/usb/r8152.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

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