The patch titled bonding: fix sysfs attribute handling has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is bonding-fix-sysfs-attribute-handling.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: bonding: fix sysfs attribute handling From: Libor Pechacek <lpechacek@xxxxxxx> For bonding interfaces any attempt to read the sysfs directory contents after module removal results in an oops. The fix is to release sysfs attributes for the interfaces upon module unload. Signed-off-by: Libor Pechacek <lpechacek@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c~bonding-fix-sysfs-attribute-handling drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c~bonding-fix-sysfs-attribute-handling +++ a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c @@ -4528,8 +4528,7 @@ static void bond_free_all(void) netif_tx_unlock_bh(bond_dev); /* Release the bonded slaves */ bond_release_all(bond_dev); - bond_deinit(bond_dev); - unregister_netdevice(bond_dev); + bond_destroy(bond); } #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from lpechacek@xxxxxxx are bonding-fix-sysfs-attribute-handling.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html