This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled rocker: free netdevice during netdevice removal to the 4.1-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: rocker-free-netdevice-during-netdevice-removal.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.1 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 Sat Sep 26 11:13:07 PDT 2015 From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2015 19:29:16 +0200 Subject: rocker: free netdevice during netdevice removal From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 1ebd47efa4e17391dfac8caa349c6a8d35f996d1 ] When removing a port's netdevice in 'rocker_remove_ports', we should also free the allocated 'net_device' structure. Do that by calling 'free_netdev' after unregistering it. Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 4b8ac9660af ("rocker: introduce rocker switch driver") Acked-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker.c @@ -4587,6 +4587,7 @@ static void rocker_remove_ports(struct r rocker_port = rocker->ports[i]; rocker_port_ig_tbl(rocker_port, ROCKER_OP_FLAG_REMOVE); unregister_netdev(rocker_port->dev); + free_netdev(rocker_port->dev); } kfree(rocker->ports); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from idosch@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.1/rocker-free-netdevice-during-netdevice-removal.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html