This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net/mlx5: SF, Drain health before removing device to the 6.1-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-mlx5-sf-drain-health-before-removing-device.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit c99829fb82244879e412ac8148101f457a231d32 Author: Shay Drory <shayd@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Apr 24 12:46:06 2023 +0300 net/mlx5: SF, Drain health before removing device [ Upstream commit b4646da0573fae9dfa2b8f1f10936cb6eedd7230 ] There is no point in recovery during device removal. Also, if health work started need to wait for it to avoid races and NULL pointer access. Hence, drain health WQ before removing device. Fixes: 1958fc2f0712 ("net/mlx5: SF, Add auxiliary device driver") Signed-off-by: Shay Drory <shayd@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Moshe Shemesh <moshe@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/sf/dev/driver.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/sf/dev/driver.c index a7377619ba6f2..2424cdf9cca99 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/sf/dev/driver.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/sf/dev/driver.c @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ static void mlx5_sf_dev_remove(struct auxiliary_device *adev) struct mlx5_sf_dev *sf_dev = container_of(adev, struct mlx5_sf_dev, adev); struct devlink *devlink = priv_to_devlink(sf_dev->mdev); + mlx5_drain_health_wq(sf_dev->mdev); devlink_unregister(devlink); mlx5_uninit_one(sf_dev->mdev); iounmap(sf_dev->mdev->iseg);