HID: usbhid: initialize interface pointers early enough
Move the initialization of USB interface pointers from _start()
over to _probe() callback, which is where it belongs.
This fixes case where interface is NULL when parsing of report
descriptor fails.
LKML-Reference: <20100213135720.603e5f64@neptune.home>
Reported-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Tested-by: Bruno Prémont <bonbons@linux-vserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
diff --git a/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c b/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c
index 74bd3ca..ceaf4a1 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c
@@ -1005,9 +1005,6 @@
spin_lock_init(&usbhid->lock);
- usbhid->intf = intf;
- usbhid->ifnum = interface->desc.bInterfaceNumber;
-
usbhid->urbctrl = usb_alloc_urb(0, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!usbhid->urbctrl) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
@@ -1178,6 +1175,8 @@
hid->driver_data = usbhid;
usbhid->hid = hid;
+ usbhid->intf = intf;
+ usbhid->ifnum = interface->desc.bInterfaceNumber;
ret = hid_add_device(hid);
if (ret) {