This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: mv643xx_eth: fix orphaned statistics timer crash
to the 3.11-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-mv643xx_eth-fix-orphaned-statistics-timer-crash.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.11 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From b6b20d9c54b23ba35c5807e45ff7d9579503bffa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 12:57:21 +0200
Subject: net: mv643xx_eth: fix orphaned statistics timer crash
From: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@xxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit f564412c935111c583b787bcc18157377b208e2e ]
The periodic statistics timer gets started at port _probe() time, but
is stopped on _stop() only. In a modular environment, this can cause
the timer to access already deallocated memory, if the module is unloaded
without starting the eth device. To fix this, we add the timer right
before the port is started, instead of at _probe() time.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jason Cooper <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mv643xx_eth.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mv643xx_eth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mv643xx_eth.c
@@ -2235,6 +2235,7 @@ static int mv643xx_eth_open(struct net_d
mp->int_mask |= INT_TX_END_0 << i;
}
+ add_timer(&mp->mib_counters_timer);
port_start(mp);
wrlp(mp, INT_MASK_EXT, INT_EXT_LINK_PHY | INT_EXT_TX);
@@ -2914,7 +2915,6 @@ static int mv643xx_eth_probe(struct plat
mp->mib_counters_timer.data = (unsigned long)mp;
mp->mib_counters_timer.function = mib_counters_timer_wrapper;
mp->mib_counters_timer.expires = jiffies + 30 * HZ;
- add_timer(&mp->mib_counters_timer);
spin_lock_init(&mp->mib_counters_lock);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sebastian.hesselbarth@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.11/net-mv643xx_eth-update-statistics-timer-from-timer-context-only.patch
queue-3.11/net-mv643xx_eth-fix-orphaned-statistics-timer-crash.patch
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