This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: s390: fix up for "Fix inconsistent teardown and release of private netdev state" to the 4.11-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-s390-fix-up-for-fix-inconsistent-teardown-and-release-of-private-netdev-state.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.11 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 Thu Jun 29 18:58:00 CEST 2017 From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 19:06:29 +1000 Subject: net: s390: fix up for "Fix inconsistent teardown and release of private netdev state" From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit cd1997f6c11483da819a7719aa013093b8003743 ] Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/s390/net/netiucv.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/s390/net/netiucv.c +++ b/drivers/s390/net/netiucv.c @@ -1954,7 +1954,6 @@ static void netiucv_free_netdevice(struc privptr->conn = NULL; privptr->fsm = NULL; /* privptr gets freed by free_netdev() */ } - free_netdev(dev); } /** @@ -1972,7 +1971,8 @@ static void netiucv_setup_netdevice(stru dev->mtu = NETIUCV_MTU_DEFAULT; dev->min_mtu = 576; dev->max_mtu = NETIUCV_MTU_MAX; - dev->destructor = netiucv_free_netdevice; + dev->needs_free_netdev = true; + dev->priv_destructor = netiucv_free_netdevice; dev->hard_header_len = NETIUCV_HDRLEN; dev->addr_len = 0; dev->type = ARPHRD_SLIP; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.11/net-s390-fix-up-for-fix-inconsistent-teardown-and-release-of-private-netdev-state.patch