netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/3] llc2: Fix silent failure of llc_station

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Date:	Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:52:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ben@...adent.org.uk
Cc:	acme@...stprotocols.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/3] llc2: Fix silent failure of llc_station_init()

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:49:59 +0100

> llc_station_init() creates and processes an event skb with no effect
> other than to change the state from DOWN to UP.  Allocation failure is
> reported, but then ignored by its caller, llc2_init().  Remove this
> possibility by simply initialising the state as UP.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>

Applied.
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