From: "Yavuz, Tuba" <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 16:28:38 +0000
> On an error path inside the hso_create_net_device function of the hso > driver, hso_free_net_device gets called. This causes potentially a > negative reference count in the net device if register_netdev has not > been called yet as hso_free_net_device calls unregister_netdev > regardless. I think the driver should distinguish these cases and call > unregister_netdev only if register_netdev has been called. > > Reported-by: Tuba Yavuz <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Tuba Yavuz <[email protected]> This does not apply cleanly to the net tree. Also, please stop putting those spaces after the subsystem prefixes in your Subject line. Put the colon character immediately after each subsystem prefix. Thank you.
