This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: cdc-phonet: fix data-interface release on probe failure to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: net-cdc-phonet-fix-data-interface-release-on-probe-f.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 33d720ea6850b07ea73cfb4c6a44c3728a6be7d1 Author: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Mar 18 16:57:49 2021 +0100 net: cdc-phonet: fix data-interface release on probe failure [ Upstream commit c79a707072fe3fea0e3c92edee6ca85c1e53c29f ] Set the disconnected flag before releasing the data interface in case netdev registration fails to avoid having the disconnect callback try to deregister the never registered netdev (and trigger a WARN_ON()). Fixes: 87cf65601e17 ("USB host CDC Phonet network interface driver") Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/cdc-phonet.c b/drivers/net/usb/cdc-phonet.c index bcabd39d136a..f778172356e6 100644 --- a/drivers/net/usb/cdc-phonet.c +++ b/drivers/net/usb/cdc-phonet.c @@ -387,6 +387,8 @@ static int usbpn_probe(struct usb_interface *intf, const struct usb_device_id *i err = register_netdev(dev); if (err) { + /* Set disconnected flag so that disconnect() returns early. */ + pnd->disconnected = 1; usb_driver_release_interface(&usbpn_driver, data_intf); goto out; }