This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: fec: restore dev_id in the cases of probe error
to the 4.14-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-fec-restore-dev_id-in-the-cases-of-probe-error.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Sat Jan 13 10:51:05 CET 2018
From: Fugang Duan <fugang.duan@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 10:39:29 +0800
Subject: net: fec: restore dev_id in the cases of probe error
From: Fugang Duan <fugang.duan@xxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit e90f686b4358d7d7e5dbaa48b8e78c9a4e41826e ]
The static variable dev_id always plus one before netdev registerred.
It should restore the dev_id value in the cases of probe error.
Signed-off-by: Fugang Duan <fugang.duan@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c
@@ -3543,6 +3543,7 @@ failed_phy:
of_node_put(phy_node);
failed_ioremap:
free_netdev(ndev);
+ dev_id--;
return ret;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from fugang.duan@xxxxxxx are
queue-4.14/net-fec-defer-probe-if-regulator-is-not-ready.patch
queue-4.14/net-fec-free-restore-resource-in-related-probe-error-pathes.patch
queue-4.14/net-fec-restore-dev_id-in-the-cases-of-probe-error.patch