This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled kaweth: fix firmware download 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: kaweth-fix-firmware-download.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 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-3.18/kaweth-fix-oops-upon-failed-memory-allocation.patch queue-3.18/kaweth-fix-firmware-download.patch