Hi,
This patch fixes a kernel panic when using netifd.
Could you please apply it also to linux-5.15.y at least?
TIA and kind regards,
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Peter
b44_free_rings() accesses b44::rx_buffers (and ::tx_buffers) unconditionally, but b44::rx_buffers is only valid when the device is up (they get allocated in b44_open(), and deallocated again in b44_close()), any other time these is just a NULL pointers. So if you try to change the pause params while the network interface is disabled/administratively down, everything explodes (which likely netifd tries to do). Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/13789 Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 (Linux-2.6.12-rc2) Reported-by: Peter Münster <pm@xxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Jonas Gorski <jonas.gorski@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Vaclav Svoboda <svoboda@xxxxxxx> Tested-by: Peter Münster <pm@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Münster <pm@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c | 14 ++++++++------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c index 3e4fb3c3e834..1be6d14030bc 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c @@ -2009,12 +2009,14 @@ static int b44_set_pauseparam(struct net_device *dev, bp->flags |= B44_FLAG_TX_PAUSE; else bp->flags &= ~B44_FLAG_TX_PAUSE; - if (bp->flags & B44_FLAG_PAUSE_AUTO) { - b44_halt(bp); - b44_init_rings(bp); - b44_init_hw(bp, B44_FULL_RESET); - } else { - __b44_set_flow_ctrl(bp, bp->flags); + if (netif_running(dev)) { + if (bp->flags & B44_FLAG_PAUSE_AUTO) { + b44_halt(bp); + b44_init_rings(bp); + b44_init_hw(bp, B44_FULL_RESET); + } else { + __b44_set_flow_ctrl(bp, bp->flags); + } } spin_unlock_irq(&bp->lock); -- 2.35.3
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