diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ether.c b/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ether.c
index 5a21f06bf8a54fab20e2bb70dd0f599b4be910c2..675ac99a79c6174bfd3f87f8b2b27f23e29417bf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ether.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ether.c
@@ -91,6 +91,22 @@ int usbnet_generic_cdc_bind(struct usbnet *dev, struct usb_interface *intf)
 				"CDC descriptors on config\n");
 	}
 
+	/* Maybe CDC descriptors are after the endpoint?  This bug has
+	 * been seen on some 2Wire Inc RNDIS-ish products.
+	 */
+	if (len == 0) {
+		struct usb_host_endpoint	*hep;
+
+		hep = intf->cur_altsetting->endpoint;
+		if (hep) {
+			buf = hep->extra;
+			len = hep->extralen;
+		}
+		if (len)
+			dev_dbg(&intf->dev,
+				"CDC descriptors on endpoint\n");
+	}
+
 	/* this assumes that if there's a non-RNDIS vendor variant
 	 * of cdc-acm, it'll fail RNDIS requests cleanly.
 	 */
diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/rndis_host.c b/drivers/net/usb/rndis_host.c
index 980e4aaa97aaa9ed4a8e77e32e2b973ceded9b38..cd991a0f75bb3ef919d8ba9f513b982eba884163 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/rndis_host.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/rndis_host.c
@@ -515,6 +515,7 @@ static int rndis_bind(struct usbnet *dev, struct usb_interface *intf)
 		dev_err(&intf->dev,
 			"dev can't take %u byte packets (max %u)\n",
 			dev->hard_mtu, tmp);
+		retval = -EINVAL;
 		goto fail_and_release;
 	}