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From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	tuba@ece.ufl.edu, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kuba@kernel.org,
	oneukum@suse.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: hso: do not call unregister if not registered
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 08:52:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YRoLSvowhZsyKbOk@eldamar.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201004071433.GA212114@kroah.com>

Hi Greg, Tuba,

On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 09:14:33AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 05:00:42PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 13:43:23 +0200
> > 
> > > @@ -2366,7 +2366,8 @@ static void hso_free_net_device(struct hso_device *hso_dev, bool bailout)
> > >  
> > >  	remove_net_device(hso_net->parent);
> > >  
> > > -	if (hso_net->net)
> > > +	if (hso_net->net &&
> > > +	    hso_net->net->reg_state == NETREG_REGISTERED)
> > >  		unregister_netdev(hso_net->net);
> > >  
> > >  	/* start freeing */
> > 
> > I really want to get out of the habit of drivers testing the internal
> > netdev registration state to make decisions.
> > 
> > Instead, please track this internally.  You know if you registered the
> > device or not, therefore use that to control whether you try to
> > unregister it or not.
> 
> Fair enough.  Tuba, do you want to fix this up in this way, or do you
> recommend that someone else do it?

Do I miss something, or did that possibly fall through the cracks?

I was checking some open issues on a downstream distro side and found
htat this thread did not got a follow-up.

Regards,
Salvatore

  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-16  6:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-02 11:43 [PATCH v2] net: hso: do not call unregister if not registered Greg KH
2020-10-04  0:00 ` David Miller
2020-10-04  7:14   ` Greg KH
2021-08-16  6:52     ` Salvatore Bonaccorso [this message]
2021-08-16  7:02       ` Greg KH
2021-08-17 15:19       ` Yavuz, Tuba

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