From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:59532 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751086AbeC2G15 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Mar 2018 02:27:57 -0400 Subject: Patch "s390/qeth: free netdevice when removing a card" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree To: jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com, davem@davemloft.net, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, ubraun@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: , From: Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 08:27:13 +0200 Message-ID: <1522304833248146@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled s390/qeth: free netdevice when removing a card to the 4.9-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: s390-qeth-free-netdevice-when-removing-a-card.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From foo@baz Wed Mar 28 20:16:33 CEST 2018 From: Julian Wiedmann Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 07:59:12 +0100 Subject: s390/qeth: free netdevice when removing a card From: Julian Wiedmann [ Upstream commit 6be687395b3124f002a653c1a50b3260222b3cd7 ] On removal, a qeth card's netdevice is currently not properly freed because the call chain looks as follows: qeth_core_remove_device(card) lx_remove_device(card) unregister_netdev(card->dev) card->dev = NULL !!! qeth_core_free_card(card) if (card->dev) !!! free_netdev(card->dev) Fix it by free'ing the netdev straight after unregistering. This also fixes the sysfs-driven layer switch case (qeth_dev_layer2_store()), where the need to free the current netdevice was not considered at all. Note that free_netdev() takes care of the netif_napi_del() for us too. Fixes: 4a71df50047f ("qeth: new qeth device driver") Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann Reviewed-by: Ursula Braun Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c | 2 -- drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c | 2 +- drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c | 2 +- 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c +++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c @@ -4989,8 +4989,6 @@ static void qeth_core_free_card(struct q QETH_DBF_HEX(SETUP, 2, &card, sizeof(void *)); qeth_clean_channel(&card->read); qeth_clean_channel(&card->write); - if (card->dev) - free_netdev(card->dev); qeth_free_qdio_buffers(card); unregister_service_level(&card->qeth_service_level); kfree(card); --- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c +++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c @@ -1057,8 +1057,8 @@ static void qeth_l2_remove_device(struct qeth_l2_set_offline(cgdev); if (card->dev) { - netif_napi_del(&card->napi); unregister_netdev(card->dev); + free_netdev(card->dev); card->dev = NULL; } return; --- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c +++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c @@ -3192,8 +3192,8 @@ static void qeth_l3_remove_device(struct qeth_l3_set_offline(cgdev); if (card->dev) { - netif_napi_del(&card->napi); unregister_netdev(card->dev); + free_netdev(card->dev); card->dev = NULL; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com are queue-4.9/s390-qeth-when-thread-completes-wake-up-all-waiters.patch queue-4.9/s390-qeth-lock-read-device-while-queueing-next-buffer.patch queue-4.9/net-iucv-free-memory-obtained-by-kzalloc.patch queue-4.9/s390-qeth-on-channel-error-reject-further-cmd-requests.patch queue-4.9/s390-qeth-free-netdevice-when-removing-a-card.patch