This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled cdc_ncm: do not call usbnet_link_change from cdc_ncm_bind to the 3.18-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: cdc_ncm-do-not-call-usbnet_link_change-from-cdc_ncm_bind.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 4d06dd537f95683aba3651098ae288b7cbff8274 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Bj=C3=B8rn=20Mork?= <bjorn@xxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 21:15:36 +0100 Subject: cdc_ncm: do not call usbnet_link_change from cdc_ncm_bind MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@xxxxxxx> commit 4d06dd537f95683aba3651098ae288b7cbff8274 upstream. usbnet_link_change will call schedule_work and should be avoided if bind is failing. Otherwise we will end up with scheduled work referring to a netdev which has gone away. Instead of making the call conditional, we can just defer it to usbnet_probe, using the driver_info flag made for this purpose. Fixes: 8a34b0ae8778 ("usbnet: cdc_ncm: apply usbnet_link_change") Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c | 20 +++++--------------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c +++ b/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c @@ -952,23 +952,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cdc_ncm_select_altsett static int cdc_ncm_bind(struct usbnet *dev, struct usb_interface *intf) { - int ret; - /* MBIM backwards compatible function? */ if (cdc_ncm_select_altsetting(intf) != CDC_NCM_COMM_ALTSETTING_NCM) return -ENODEV; /* The NCM data altsetting is fixed */ - ret = cdc_ncm_bind_common(dev, intf, CDC_NCM_DATA_ALTSETTING_NCM); - - /* - * We should get an event when network connection is "connected" or - * "disconnected". Set network connection in "disconnected" state - * (carrier is OFF) during attach, so the IP network stack does not - * start IPv6 negotiation and more. - */ - usbnet_link_change(dev, 0, 0); - return ret; + return cdc_ncm_bind_common(dev, intf, CDC_NCM_DATA_ALTSETTING_NCM); } static void cdc_ncm_align_tail(struct sk_buff *skb, size_t modulus, size_t remainder, size_t max) @@ -1510,7 +1499,8 @@ static void cdc_ncm_status(struct usbnet static const struct driver_info cdc_ncm_info = { .description = "CDC NCM", - .flags = FLAG_POINTTOPOINT | FLAG_NO_SETINT | FLAG_MULTI_PACKET, + .flags = FLAG_POINTTOPOINT | FLAG_NO_SETINT | FLAG_MULTI_PACKET + | FLAG_LINK_INTR, .bind = cdc_ncm_bind, .unbind = cdc_ncm_unbind, .manage_power = usbnet_manage_power, @@ -1523,7 +1513,7 @@ static const struct driver_info cdc_ncm_ static const struct driver_info wwan_info = { .description = "Mobile Broadband Network Device", .flags = FLAG_POINTTOPOINT | FLAG_NO_SETINT | FLAG_MULTI_PACKET - | FLAG_WWAN, + | FLAG_LINK_INTR | FLAG_WWAN, .bind = cdc_ncm_bind, .unbind = cdc_ncm_unbind, .manage_power = usbnet_manage_power, @@ -1536,7 +1526,7 @@ static const struct driver_info wwan_inf static const struct driver_info wwan_noarp_info = { .description = "Mobile Broadband Network Device (NO ARP)", .flags = FLAG_POINTTOPOINT | FLAG_NO_SETINT | FLAG_MULTI_PACKET - | FLAG_WWAN | FLAG_NOARP, + | FLAG_LINK_INTR | FLAG_WWAN | FLAG_NOARP, .bind = cdc_ncm_bind, .unbind = cdc_ncm_unbind, .manage_power = usbnet_manage_power, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bjorn@xxxxxxx are queue-3.18/cdc_ncm-do-not-call-usbnet_link_change-from-cdc_ncm_bind.patch