2.6.25-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Patrick McHardy [ Upstream commit: 7312096454b6cd71267eaa3d0efb408e449e9ff3 ] As noticed by Ben Greear, macvlan crashes the kernel when unloading the module. The reason is that it tries to clean up the macvlan_port pointer on the macvlan device itself instead of the underlying device. A non-NULL pointer is taken as indication that the macvlan_handle_frame_hook is valid, when receiving the next packet on the underlying device it tries to call the NULL hook and crashes. Clean up the macvlan_port on the correct device to fix this. Signed-off-by; Patrick McHardy Tested-by: Ben Greear Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/macvlan.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c +++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c @@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ static void macvlan_dellink(struct net_d unregister_netdevice(dev); if (list_empty(&port->vlans)) - macvlan_port_destroy(dev); + macvlan_port_destroy(port->dev); } static struct rtnl_link_ops macvlan_link_ops __read_mostly = { --