This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: ftgmac100: Fix crash when removing driver to the 5.9-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: net-ftgmac100-fix-crash-when-removing-driver.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Sun Nov 22 10:24:40 AM CET 2020 From: Joel Stanley <joel@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 13:14:48 +1030 Subject: net: ftgmac100: Fix crash when removing driver From: Joel Stanley <joel@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 3d5179458d22dc0b4fdc724e4bed4231a655112a ] When removing the driver we would hit BUG_ON(!list_empty(&dev->ptype_specific)) in net/core/dev.c due to still having the NC-SI packet handler registered. # echo 1e660000.ethernet > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/ftgmac100/unbind ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at net/core/dev.c:10254! Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] SMP ARM CPU: 0 PID: 115 Comm: sh Not tainted 5.10.0-rc3-next-20201111-00007-g02e0365710c4 #46 Hardware name: Generic DT based system PC is at netdev_run_todo+0x314/0x394 LR is at cpumask_next+0x20/0x24 pc : [<806f5830>] lr : [<80863cb0>] psr: 80000153 sp : 855bbd58 ip : 00000001 fp : 855bbdac r10: 80c03d00 r9 : 80c06228 r8 : 81158c54 r7 : 00000000 r6 : 80c05dec r5 : 80c05d18 r4 : 813b9280 r3 : 813b9054 r2 : 8122c470 r1 : 00000002 r0 : 00000002 Flags: Nzcv IRQs on FIQs off Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment none Control: 00c5387d Table: 85514008 DAC: 00000051 Process sh (pid: 115, stack limit = 0x7cb5703d) ... Backtrace: [<806f551c>] (netdev_run_todo) from [<80707eec>] (rtnl_unlock+0x18/0x1c) r10:00000051 r9:854ed710 r8:81158c54 r7:80c76bb0 r6:81158c10 r5:8115b410 r4:813b9000 [<80707ed4>] (rtnl_unlock) from [<806f5db8>] (unregister_netdev+0x2c/0x30) [<806f5d8c>] (unregister_netdev) from [<805a8180>] (ftgmac100_remove+0x20/0xa8) r5:8115b410 r4:813b9000 [<805a8160>] (ftgmac100_remove) from [<805355e4>] (platform_drv_remove+0x34/0x4c) Fixes: bd466c3fb5a4 ("net/faraday: Support NCSI mode") Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201117024448.1170761-1-joel@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c @@ -1907,6 +1907,8 @@ err_register_netdev: clk_disable_unprepare(priv->rclk); clk_disable_unprepare(priv->clk); err_ncsi_dev: + if (priv->ndev) + ncsi_unregister_dev(priv->ndev); ftgmac100_destroy_mdio(netdev); err_setup_mdio: iounmap(priv->base); @@ -1926,6 +1928,8 @@ static int ftgmac100_remove(struct platf netdev = platform_get_drvdata(pdev); priv = netdev_priv(netdev); + if (priv->ndev) + ncsi_unregister_dev(priv->ndev); unregister_netdev(netdev); clk_disable_unprepare(priv->rclk); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from joel@xxxxxxxxx are queue-5.9/net-ftgmac100-fix-crash-when-removing-driver.patch queue-5.9/net-ncsi-fix-netlink-registration.patch