Patch "kaweth: fix firmware download" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

kaweth: fix firmware download

to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
kaweth-fix-firmware-download.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Oliver Neukum <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 15:51:55 +0200
Subject: kaweth: fix firmware download

From: Oliver Neukum <[email protected]>

commit 60bcabd080f53561efa9288be45c128feda1a8bb upstream.

This fixes the oops discovered by the Umap2 project and Alan Stern. The intf member needs to be set before the firmware is downloaded.

---
 drivers/net/usb/kaweth.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -1029,6 +1029,7 @@ static int kaweth_probe(
 	kaweth = netdev_priv(netdev);
 	kaweth->dev = udev;
 	kaweth->net = netdev;
+	kaweth->intf = intf;
 
 	spin_lock_init(&kaweth->device_lock);
 	init_waitqueue_head(&kaweth->term_wait);

@@ -1139,8 +1140,6 @@ err_fw:
 
 	dev_dbg(dev, "Initializing net device.\n");
 
-	kaweth->intf = intf;
-
 	kaweth->tx_urb = usb_alloc_urb(0, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!kaweth->tx_urb)
 		goto err_free_netdev;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.18/kaweth-fix-oops-upon-failed-memory-allocation.patch queue-3.18/kaweth-fix-firmware-download.patch