Commit b8d297c9 authored Apr 23, 2007 by Erik Hovland Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman Apr 27, 2007

usb ethernet gadget, workaround network stack API glitch



Another workaround for the glitch in the network layer, whereby one call
ignores the (otherwise kernel-wide) convention that free() calls should
not oops when passed nulls.  This code already handles that API glitch in
most other paths.

From: Erik Hovland <erik@hovland.org>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

parent 83f7d958

drivers/usb/gadget/ether.c

+2 −1

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		@@ -1735,6 +1735,7 @@ rx_submit (struct eth_dev dev, struct usb_request req, gfp_t gfp_flags)
		defer_kevent (dev, WORK_RX_MEMORY);
		if (retval) {
		DEBUG (dev, "rx submit --> %d\n", retval);
		if (skb)
		dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
		spin_lock(&dev->req_lock);
		list_add (&req->list, &dev->rx_reqs);