This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: usb: usbnet: fix race in probe failure
to the 6.11-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-usb-usbnet-fix-race-in-probe-failure.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.11 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 85c9e5ca8baf7530854761ecb5a3d1a65a4de857
Author: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Oct 10 15:19:14 2024 +0200
net: usb: usbnet: fix race in probe failure
[ Upstream commit b62f4c186c70aa235fef2da68d07325d85ca3ade ]
The same bug as in the disconnect code path also exists
in the case of a failure late during the probe process.
The flag must also be set.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241010131934.1499695-1-oneukum@xxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
index 2506aa8c603ec..ee1b5fd7b4919 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
@@ -1870,6 +1870,7 @@ usbnet_probe (struct usb_interface *udev, const struct usb_device_id *prod)
* may trigger an error resubmitting itself and, worse,
* schedule a timer. So we kill it all just in case.
*/
+ usbnet_mark_going_away(dev);
cancel_work_sync(&dev->kevent);
del_timer_sync(&dev->delay);
free_netdev(net);
