Patch "rtlwifi: pci: Fix oops on driver unload" has been added to the 3.10-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    rtlwifi: pci: Fix oops on driver unload

to the 3.10-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:
     rtlwifi-pci-fix-oops-on-driver-unload.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From 9278db6279e28d4d433bc8a848e10b4ece8793ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 17:13:10 -0600
Subject: rtlwifi: pci: Fix oops on driver unload

From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 9278db6279e28d4d433bc8a848e10b4ece8793ed upstream.

On Fedora systems, unloading rtl8192ce causes an oops. This patch fixes the
problem reported at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=852761.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c
@@ -734,6 +734,8 @@ static void _rtl_pci_rx_interrupt(struct
 	};
 	int index = rtlpci->rx_ring[rx_queue_idx].idx;
 
+	if (rtlpci->driver_is_goingto_unload)
+		return;
 	/*RX NORMAL PKT */
 	while (count--) {
 		/*rx descriptor */
@@ -1630,6 +1632,7 @@ static void rtl_pci_stop(struct ieee8021
 	 */
 	set_hal_stop(rtlhal);
 
+	rtlpci->driver_is_goingto_unload = true;
 	rtlpriv->cfg->ops->disable_interrupt(hw);
 	cancel_work_sync(&rtlpriv->works.lps_change_work);
 
@@ -1647,7 +1650,6 @@ static void rtl_pci_stop(struct ieee8021
 	ppsc->rfchange_inprogress = true;
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rtlpriv->locks.rf_ps_lock, flags);
 
-	rtlpci->driver_is_goingto_unload = true;
 	rtlpriv->cfg->ops->hw_disable(hw);
 	/* some things are not needed if firmware not available */
 	if (!rtlpriv->max_fw_size)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx are

queue-3.10/rtlwifi-pci-fix-oops-on-driver-unload.patch
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