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 6.1-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-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 6a534328018f2f8a9657bcce4b65fa2ad34cf98f 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 bd0b807db751d..ce587a12b894c 100644 --- a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c +++ b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c @@ -1869,6 +1869,7 @@ 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_percpu(net->tstats);