4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ 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 @@ -5061,8 +5061,6 @@ 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); qeth_free_qdio_buffers(card); unregister_service_level(&card->qeth_service_level); kfree(card); --- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c +++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c @@ -935,8 +935,8 @@ 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 @@ -3046,8 +3046,8 @@ 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; }