netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] caif_usb: Check driver name before reading driver state in netdev notifier

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Date:	Sun, 09 Dec 2012 00:34:33 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	sjur.brandeland@...ricsson.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] caif_usb: Check driver name before
 reading driver state in netdev notifier

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 16:17:26 +0000

> In cfusbl_device_notify(), the usbnet and usbdev variables are
> initialised before the driver name has been checked.  In case the
> device's driver is not cdc_ncm, this may result in reading beyond the
> end of the netdev private area.  Move the initialisation below the
> driver name check.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>

Applied.
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