Re: [PATCH 2/3] gigaset: in file ops, check for device disconnectbefore anything else

[David Miller]

From: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sun,  5 Apr 2009 18:39:33 +0200 (CEST)

> When the device is disconnected, the dev structure goes away, so
> trying to report another error via dev_printk is bound to oops.
> To avoid that, first check whether the device is still connected
> and return quietly if it isn't.
> 
> Impact: error handling
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@xxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied.
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