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 3.12-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-3.12 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
@@ -741,6 +741,8 @@ 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 */
@@ -1637,6 +1639,7 @@ 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);
@@ -1654,7 +1657,6 @@ 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-3.12/rtlwifi-pci-fix-oops-on-driver-unload.patch
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