This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled r8169: prevent potential deadlock in rtl8169_close to the 5.10-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: r8169-prevent-potential-deadlock-in-rtl8169_close.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 60c9ac4977373a8967a01362d410f0b5e98ee068 Author: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun Nov 26 23:01:02 2023 +0100 r8169: prevent potential deadlock in rtl8169_close [ Upstream commit 91d3d149978ba7b238198dd80e4b823756aa7cfa ] ndo_stop() is RTNL-protected by net core, and the worker function takes RTNL as well. Therefore we will deadlock when trying to execute a pending work synchronously. To fix this execute any pending work asynchronously. This will do no harm because netif_running() is false in ndo_stop(), and therefore the work function is effectively a no-op. However we have to ensure that no task is running or pending after rtl_remove_one(), therefore add a call to cancel_work_sync(). Fixes: abe5fc42f9ce ("r8169: use RTNL to protect critical sections") Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/12395867-1d17-4cac-aa7d-c691938fcddf@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c index ab6af1f1ad5bb..d33720f68c679 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c @@ -4769,7 +4769,7 @@ static int rtl8169_close(struct net_device *dev) rtl8169_down(tp); rtl8169_rx_clear(tp); - cancel_work_sync(&tp->wk.work); + cancel_work(&tp->wk.work); free_irq(pci_irq_vector(pdev, 0), tp); @@ -5035,6 +5035,8 @@ static void rtl_remove_one(struct pci_dev *pdev) if (pci_dev_run_wake(pdev)) pm_runtime_get_noresume(&pdev->dev); + cancel_work_sync(&tp->wk.work); + unregister_netdev(tp->dev); if (r8168_check_dash(tp))