From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: michaelbarkowski@ruggedcom.com
Cc: khc@pm.waw.pl, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] WAN: flush tx_queue in hdlc_ppp to prevent panic on rmmod hw_driver.
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:43:39 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100422.144339.128290761.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BD0A0B9.2070709@ruggedcom.com>
From: Michael Barkowski <michaelbarkowski@ruggedcom.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:17:13 -0400
> Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
>> tx_queue is used as a temporary queue when not allowed to queue skb
>> directly to the hw device driver (which may sleep). Most paths flush
>> it before returning, but ppp_start() currently cannot. Make sure we
>> don't leave skbs pointing to a non-existent device.
>>
>> Thanks to Michael Barkowski for reporting this problem.
>
> Great - thanks. Will this be going into -stable?
When I think it's cooked long enough in Linus's tree and
I submit it there. That can take a few weeks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-22 21:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-15 0:09 [PATCH] WAN: flush tx_queue in hdlc_ppp to prevent panic on rmmod hw_driver Krzysztof Halasa
2010-04-16 22:41 ` David Miller
2010-04-22 19:17 ` Michael Barkowski
2010-04-22 21:43 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-04-22 21:55 ` Michael Barkowski
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