netdev - Re: [PATCH] usbnet: cleanup after bind() in probe()

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Message-ID: <1457372206.3404.12.camel@suse.com>
Date:	Mon, 07 Mar 2016 18:36:46 +0100
From:	Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	andreyknvl@...il.com, bjorn@...k.no, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usbnet: cleanup after bind() in probe()

On Mon, 2016-03-07 at 11:41 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>
> Date: Mon,  7 Mar 2016 11:31:10 +0100
> 
> > In case bind() works, but a later error forces bailing
> > in probe() in error cases work and a timer may be scheduled.
> > They must be killed. This fixes an error case related to
> > the double free reported in
> > http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg367669.html
> > and needs to go on top of Linus' fix to cdc-ncm.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <ONeukum@...e.com>
> 
> Applied, thanks Oliver.
> 
> How far back does this bug exist?  I'm trying to figure out what
> -stable branchs to send it to.

It goes back to 3.12

	HTH
		Oliver