On 08/24/2018, 06:38 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2018-07-20 at 14:13 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >> 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. >> >> ------------------ >> >> From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> >> >> [ Upstream commit 0ee1f4734967af8321ecebaf9c74221ace34f2d5 ] > [...] >> --- a/drivers/net/usb/r8152.c >> +++ b/drivers/net/usb/r8152.c >> @@ -3139,7 +3139,8 @@ static int rtl8152_close(struct net_devi >> #ifdef CONFIG_PM_SLEEP >> unregister_pm_notifier(&tp->pm_notifier); >> #endif >> - napi_disable(&tp->napi); >> + if (!test_bit(RTL8152_UNPLUG, &tp->flags)) >> + napi_disable(&tp->napi); >> clear_bit(WORK_ENABLE, &tp->flags); >> usb_kill_urb(tp->intr_urb); >> cancel_delayed_work_sync(&tp->schedule); > > This flag appears to be set only if the USB device is actually > disconnected. In case the driver is unbound for some other reason > (like the module is removed), the same problem will occur. Could you elaborate? I thought this would happen: module_exit -> usb_deregister -> usb_unbind_device -> rtl8152_disconnect -> unregister_netdev -> rtl8152_close Am I missing something? thanks, -- js suse labs