This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tipc: fix cleanup at module unload to the 3.18-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: tipc-fix-cleanup-at-module-unload.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 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 Tue Dec 5 18:18:39 CET 2017 From: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 13:00:48 +0100 Subject: tipc: fix cleanup at module unload From: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 35e22e49a5d6a741ebe7f2dd280b2052c3003ef7 ] In tipc_server_stop(), we iterate over the connections with limiting factor as server's idr_in_use. We ignore the fact that this variable is decremented in tipc_close_conn(), leading to premature exit. In this commit, we iterate until the we have no connections left. Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: John Thompson <thompa.atl@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/tipc/server.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/net/tipc/server.c +++ b/net/tipc/server.c @@ -579,14 +579,12 @@ int tipc_server_start(struct tipc_server void tipc_server_stop(struct tipc_server *s) { struct tipc_conn *con; - int total = 0; int id; spin_lock_bh(&s->idr_lock); - for (id = 0; total < s->idr_in_use; id++) { + for (id = 0; s->idr_in_use; id++) { con = idr_find(&s->conn_idr, id); if (con) { - total++; spin_unlock_bh(&s->idr_lock); tipc_close_conn(con); spin_lock_bh(&s->idr_lock); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/tipc-fix-cleanup-at-module-unload.patch