The gs_usb driver supports USB devices with more than 1 CAN channel. In old kernel before 3.15, it uses net_device->dev_id to distinguish different channel in userspace, which was done in commit acff76fa45b4 ("can: gs_usb: gs_make_candev(): set netdev->dev_id"). But since 3.15, the correct way is populating net_device->dev_port. And according to documentation, if network device support multiple interface, lack of net_device->dev_port SHALL be treated as a bug.
Fixes: acff76fa45b4 ("can: gs_usb: gs_make_candev(): set netdev->dev_id") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Celeste Liu uwu@coelacanthus.name --- drivers/net/can/usb/gs_usb.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/can/usb/gs_usb.c b/drivers/net/can/usb/gs_usb.c index c9482d6e947b0c7b033dc4f0c35f5b111e1bfd92..7ee68b47b569a142ffed3981edcaa9a1943ef0c2 100644 --- a/drivers/net/can/usb/gs_usb.c +++ b/drivers/net/can/usb/gs_usb.c @@ -1249,6 +1249,7 @@ static struct gs_can *gs_make_candev(unsigned int channel,
netdev->flags |= IFF_ECHO; /* we support full roundtrip echo */ netdev->dev_id = channel; + netdev->dev_port = channel;
/* dev setup */ strcpy(dev->bt_const.name, KBUILD_MODNAME);
--- base-commit: 30d4efb2f5a515a60fe6b0ca85362cbebea21e2f change-id: 20250930-gs-usb-populate-net_device-dev_port-941f2d1c3889
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