I just resubmitted the patch and made sure to send it in plaintext. Hopefully, it will work this time.
Best, Tuba ________________________________________ From: David Miller <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 8, 2019 6:08 PM To: Yavuz, Tuba Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: hso: do not unregister if not registered From: "Yavuz, Tuba" <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2019 00:40:31 +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 <[email protected]> This patch is corrupted by your email client.
