Re: [PATCH] hv/netvsc: Fix NULL dereference at single queue mode fallback

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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 19:10:50 +0200

> The recent commit 916c5e1413be ("hv/netvsc: fix handling of fallback
> to single queue mode") tried to fix the fallback behavior to a single
> queue mode, but it changed the function to return zero incorrectly,
> while the function should return an object pointer.  Eventually this
> leads to a NULL dereference at the callers that expect non-NULL
> value.
> 
> Fix it by returning the proper net_device object.
> 
> Fixes: 916c5e1413be ("hv/netvsc: fix handling of fallback to single queue mode")
> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>

Applied and queued up for -stable.

Please do not put explicit "CC: stable" notations in networking patches, I queue
up and submit networking patches to -stable explicitly.

Thank you.
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