Re: [PATCH] net: hso: register netdev later to avoid a race condition

[David Miller]

From: Andreas Kemnade <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 19:26:40 +0200

> If the netdev is accessed before the urbs are initialized,
> there will be NULL pointer dereferences. That is avoided by
> registering it when it is fully initialized.
> 
> This case occurs e.g. if dhcpcd is running in the background
> and the device is probed, either after insmod hso or
> when the device appears on the usb bus.
> 
> A backtrace is the following:
 ...
> Reported-by: H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Kemnade <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.