This reverts commit 543e3a8da5a4c453e992d5351ef405d5e32f27d7. Direct callers of __netpoll_setup() depend on it to set np->dev, so we can't simply move that assignment up to netpoll_stup().
Reported-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanass...@sandisk.com> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelg...@google.com> --- net/core/netpoll.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c index a57bd17..94acfc8 100644 --- a/net/core/netpoll.c +++ b/net/core/netpoll.c @@ -603,6 +603,7 @@ int __netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np, struct net_device *ndev) const struct net_device_ops *ops; int err; + np->dev = ndev; strlcpy(np->dev_name, ndev->name, IFNAMSIZ); INIT_WORK(&np->cleanup_work, netpoll_async_cleanup); @@ -669,7 +670,6 @@ int netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np) goto unlock; } dev_hold(ndev); - np->dev = ndev; if (netdev_master_upper_dev_get(ndev)) { np_err(np, "%s is a slave device, aborting\n", np->dev_name); @@ -770,7 +770,6 @@ int netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np) return 0; put: - np->dev = NULL; dev_put(ndev); unlock: rtnl_unlock();