This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
s390/qeth: free netdevice when removing a card
to the 4.4-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:
s390-qeth-free-netdevice-when-removing-a-card.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Thu Mar 29 08:33:08 CEST 2018
From: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 07:59:12 +0100
Subject: s390/qeth: free netdevice when removing a card
From: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 6be687395b3124f002a653c1a50b3260222b3cd7 ]
On removal, a qeth card's netdevice is currently not properly freed
because the call chain looks as follows:
qeth_core_remove_device(card)
lx_remove_device(card)
unregister_netdev(card->dev)
card->dev = NULL !!!
qeth_core_free_card(card)
if (card->dev) !!!
free_netdev(card->dev)
Fix it by free'ing the netdev straight after unregistering. This also
fixes the sysfs-driven layer switch case (qeth_dev_layer2_store()),
where the need to free the current netdevice was not considered at all.
Note that free_netdev() takes care of the netif_napi_del() for us too.
Fixes: 4a71df50047f ("qeth: new qeth device driver")
Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Ursula Braun <ubraun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c | 2 --
drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c | 2 +-
drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c
@@ -4969,8 +4969,6 @@ static void qeth_core_free_card(struct q
QETH_DBF_HEX(SETUP, 2, &card, sizeof(void *));
qeth_clean_channel(&card->read);
qeth_clean_channel(&card->write);
- if (card->dev)
- free_netdev(card->dev);
kfree(card->ip_tbd_list);
qeth_free_qdio_buffers(card);
unregister_service_level(&card->qeth_service_level);
--- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c
@@ -1062,8 +1062,8 @@ static void qeth_l2_remove_device(struct
qeth_l2_set_offline(cgdev);
if (card->dev) {
- netif_napi_del(&card->napi);
unregister_netdev(card->dev);
+ free_netdev(card->dev);
card->dev = NULL;
}
return;
--- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c
@@ -3243,8 +3243,8 @@ static void qeth_l3_remove_device(struct
qeth_l3_set_offline(cgdev);
if (card->dev) {
- netif_napi_del(&card->napi);
unregister_netdev(card->dev);
+ free_netdev(card->dev);
card->dev = NULL;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jwi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/s390-qeth-when-thread-completes-wake-up-all-waiters.patch
queue-4.4/s390-qeth-lock-read-device-while-queueing-next-buffer.patch
queue-4.4/net-iucv-free-memory-obtained-by-kzalloc.patch
queue-4.4/s390-qeth-on-channel-error-reject-further-cmd-requests.patch
queue-4.4/s390-qeth-free-netdevice-when-removing-a-card.patch