netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: qmi_wwan: fix Oops while disconnecting

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Date:	Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:54:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	oliver@...kum.org
Cc:	bjorn@...k.no, netdev@...r.kernel.org, tom.leiming@...il.com,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, marius.kotsbak@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: qmi_wwan: fix Oops while disconnecting

From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:40:55 +0200

> Am Donnerstag, 28. Juni 2012, 10:36:49 schrieb Bjørn Mork:
>> I'd like this patch applied to qmi_wwan regardless of the outcome of the
>> (now stalled?) generic usbnet_disconnect discussion.
>> 
>> The patch fixes a real Oops in 3.4 and 3.5, and I believe it should be
>> left in qmi_wwan even if the usbnet code is fixed to avoid this specific
>> bug.  The additional NULL test won't harm, and it makes the code more
>> robust should someone decide to rearrange usbnet_disconnect again at
>> some later point in time.
>> 
>> I really want this fixed in the next 3.4 stable release, if possible.
>> Should I resubmit the patch, or will you pick it up from
>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/166542/ ?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> David, can you please apply this? It needs to also go into stable.
> We might remove this in later releases, but for now it is needed.

Done.  I left the stable CC: in there so Greg will pick this up
automatically once it hits Linus's tree.

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