This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
sunvnet: vnet_port_remove must call unregister_netdev
to the 3.4-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:
sunvnet-vnet_port_remove-must-call-unregister_netdev.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 798b483877ed2d341e824511e5d4a430680f640c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 16:49:22 -0500
Subject: sunvnet: vnet_port_remove must call unregister_netdev
From: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit aabb9875d02559ab9b928cd6f259a5cc4c21a589 ]
The missing call to unregister_netdev() leaves the interface active
after the driver is unloaded by rmmod.
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet.c
@@ -1243,6 +1243,8 @@ static int vnet_port_remove(struct vio_d
dev_set_drvdata(&vdev->dev, NULL);
kfree(port);
+
+ unregister_netdev(vp->dev);
}
return 0;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dave.kleikamp@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/sunvnet-vnet_port_remove-must-call-unregister_netdev.patch
queue-3.4/sparc-tsb-must-be-flushed-before-tlb.patch
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