netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] net: cdc_eem: clean up bind error path

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Date:   Wed, 7 Mar 2018 06:56:50 -0800
From:   Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:     Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] net: cdc_eem: clean up bind error path

On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 10:46:58AM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> Drop bogus call to usb_driver_release_interface() from an error path in
> the usbnet bind() callback, which is called during interface probe. At
> this point the interface is not bound and usb_driver_release_interface()
> returns early.
> 
> Also remove the bogus call to clear the interface data, which is owned
> by the usbnet driver and would not even have been set by the time bind()
> is called.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>