During driver unload, the driver proceeds with cleanup without waiting for the scheduled events. So the device pointers get freed up and driver crashes when the events are scheduled later. Flush the bnxt_re_task work queue before starting device removal. Signed-off-by: Selvin Xavier <selvin.xavier@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/main.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/main.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/main.c index 3d5bbf9..560520c 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/main.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/main.c @@ -1591,6 +1591,11 @@ static void __exit bnxt_re_mod_exit(void) */ list_for_each_entry_safe_reverse(rdev, next, &to_be_deleted, list) { dev_info(rdev_to_dev(rdev), "Unregistering Device"); + /* + * Flush out any scheduled tasks before destroying the + * resources + */ + flush_workqueue(bnxt_re_wq); bnxt_re_dev_stop(rdev); bnxt_re_ib_unreg(rdev, true); bnxt_re_remove_one(rdev); -- 2.5.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html