Bug#675190: [ 041/187] xen/netfront: teardown the device before unregistering it.
- To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
- Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, George Shuklin <george.shuklin@gmail.com>, Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>, William Dauchy <wdauchy@gmail.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, stable@kernel.org, 675190@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Bug#675190: [ 041/187] xen/netfront: teardown the device before unregistering it.
- From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:33:17 -0700
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20120712191526.143177530@linuxfoundation.org>
- Reply-to: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, 675190@bugs.debian.org
- In-reply-to: <20120712191522.742634173@linuxfoundation.org>
- References: <20120712192421.GA28926@kroah.com> <20120712191522.742634173@linuxfoundation.org>
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
[ Upstream commit 6bc96d047fe32d76ef79f3195c52a542edf7c705 ]
Fixes:
[ 15.470311] WARNING: at /local/scratch/ianc/devel/kernels/linux/fs/sysfs/file.c:498 sysfs_attr_ns+0x95/0xa0()
[ 15.470326] sysfs: kobject eth0 without dirent
[ 15.470333] Modules linked in:
[ 15.470342] Pid: 12, comm: xenwatch Not tainted 3.4.0-x86_32p-xenU #93
and
[ 9.150554] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 2b359000
[ 9.150577] IP: [<c1279561>] linkwatch_do_dev+0x81/0xc0
[ 9.150592] *pdpt = 000000002c3c9027 *pde = 0000000000000000
[ 9.150604] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
[ 9.150613] Modules linked in:
This is http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=675190
Reported-by: George Shuklin <george.shuklin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Tested-by: William Dauchy <wdauchy@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: 675190@bugs.debian.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/net/xen-netfront.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
@@ -1935,14 +1935,14 @@ static int __devexit xennet_remove(struc
dev_dbg(&dev->dev, "%s\n", dev->nodename);
- unregister_netdev(info->netdev);
-
xennet_disconnect_backend(info);
- del_timer_sync(&info->rx_refill_timer);
-
xennet_sysfs_delif(info->netdev);
+ unregister_netdev(info->netdev);
+
+ del_timer_sync(&info->rx_refill_timer);
+
free_percpu(info->stats);
free_netdev(info->netdev);
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