[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "rocker: free netdevice during netdevice removal" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Mon Sep 21 22:26:45 UTC 2015


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    rocker: free netdevice during netdevice removal

to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt7.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From b648df922554c64cf3d34b33d9f7a58f54a0dc2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ido Schimmel <idosch at mellanox.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2015 19:29:16 +0200
Subject: rocker: free netdevice during netdevice removal

commit 1ebd47efa4e17391dfac8caa349c6a8d35f996d1 upstream.

When removing a port's netdevice in 'rocker_remove_ports', we should
also free the allocated 'net_device' structure. Do that by calling
'free_netdev' after unregistering it.

Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch at mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri at resnulli.us>
Fixes: 4b8ac9660af ("rocker: introduce rocker switch driver")
Acked-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker.c
index 24c0284..5f8645d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker.c
@@ -3960,6 +3960,7 @@ static void rocker_remove_ports(struct rocker *rocker)
 		rocker_port = rocker->ports[i];
 		rocker_port_ig_tbl(rocker_port, ROCKER_OP_FLAG_REMOVE);
 		unregister_netdev(rocker_port->dev);
+		free_netdev(rocker_port->dev);
 	}
 	kfree(rocker->ports);
 }
--
1.9.1





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