This is surprising as I got total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 checks, 10 lines checked.
Anyhow, I'll submit as suggested. Best, Tuba Yavuz, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 Webpage: http://www.tuba.ece.ufl.edu/ Email: t...@ece.ufl.edu Phone: (352) 846 0202 ________________________________________ From: David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> Sent: Tuesday, February 5, 2019 7:36 PM To: Yavuz, Tuba Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH]: net: hso: do not call unregister if not registered From: "Yavuz, Tuba" <t...@ece.ufl.edu> Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2019 23:01:25 +0000 > > > On an error path inside the hso_create_net_device function of the hso > driver, hso_free_net_device gets called. This causes potentially a > negative reference count in the net device if register_netdev has not > been called yet as hso_free_net_device calls unregister_netdev > regardless. I think the driver should distinguish these cases and call > unregister_netdev only if register_netdev has been called. > > Signed-off-by: Tuba Yavuz <t...@ece.ufl.edu> > --- > > --- linux-stable/drivers/net/usb/hso.c.orig 2019-01-27 14:45:58.232683119 > -0500 > +++ linux-stable/drivers/net/usb/hso.c 2019-02-05 17:54:17.056496019 -0500 > @@ -2377,7 +2377,9 @@ static void hso_free_net_device(struct h > > remove_net_device(hso_net->parent); > > - if (hso_net->net) > + if (hso_net->net && > + hso_net->net->reg_state == NETREG_REGISTERED > + ) This is not formatted correctly, the final closing ')' should end the previous line, like this: if (hso_net->net && hso_net->net->reg_state == NETREG_REGISTERED)
