Re: [PATCH] net: hso: register netdev later to avoid a race condition

2017-04-28 Thread David Miller
From: Andreas Kemnade Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 19:26:40 +0200 > If the netdev is accessed before the urbs are initialized, > there will be NULL pointer dereferences. That is avoided by > registering it when it is fully initialized. > > This case occurs e.g. if dhcpcd is running in the background >

Re: [PATCH] net: hso: register netdev later to avoid a race condition

2017-04-28 Thread Johan Hovold
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 07:36:29PM +0200, Andreas Kemnade wrote: > On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 10:44:01 +0200 > Johan Hovold wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 07:26:40PM +0200, Andreas Kemnade wrote: > > > If the netdev is accessed before the urbs are initialized, > > > there will be NULL pointer dere

Re: [PATCH] net: hso: register netdev later to avoid a race condition

2017-04-28 Thread Andreas Kemnade
On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 10:44:01 +0200 Johan Hovold wrote: > On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 07:26:40PM +0200, Andreas Kemnade wrote: > > If the netdev is accessed before the urbs are initialized, > > there will be NULL pointer dereferences. That is avoided by > > registering it when it is fully initialized.

Re: [PATCH] net: hso: register netdev later to avoid a race condition

2017-04-27 Thread Johan Hovold
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 07:26:40PM +0200, Andreas Kemnade wrote: > If the netdev is accessed before the urbs are initialized, > there will be NULL pointer dereferences. That is avoided by > registering it when it is fully initialized. > Reported-by: H. Nikolaus Schaller > Signed-off-by: Andreas K

[PATCH] net: hso: register netdev later to avoid a race condition

2017-04-26 Thread Andreas Kemnade
If the netdev is accessed before the urbs are initialized, there will be NULL pointer dereferences. That is avoided by registering it when it is fully initialized. This case occurs e.g. if dhcpcd is running in the background and the device is probed, either after insmod hso or when the device appe