This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
kaweth: fix firmware download
to the 4.4-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:
kaweth-fix-firmware-download.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 60bcabd080f53561efa9288be45c128feda1a8bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 15:51:55 +0200
Subject: kaweth: fix firmware download
From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx>
commit 60bcabd080f53561efa9288be45c128feda1a8bb upstream.
This fixes the oops discovered by the Umap2 project and Alan Stern.
The intf member needs to be set before the firmware is downloaded.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx>
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/kaweth.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/usb/kaweth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/kaweth.c
@@ -1029,6 +1029,7 @@ static int kaweth_probe(
kaweth = netdev_priv(netdev);
kaweth->dev = udev;
kaweth->net = netdev;
+ kaweth->intf = intf;
spin_lock_init(&kaweth->device_lock);
init_waitqueue_head(&kaweth->term_wait);
@@ -1139,8 +1140,6 @@ err_fw:
dev_dbg(dev, "Initializing net device.\n");
- kaweth->intf = intf;
-
kaweth->tx_urb = usb_alloc_urb(0, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!kaweth->tx_urb)
goto err_free_netdev;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from oneukum@xxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/kaweth-fix-oops-upon-failed-memory-allocation.patch
queue-4.4/kaweth-fix-firmware-download.patch