From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Networking fixes for -stable. Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:31:45 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20121114.223145.1718907430767854932.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20121112.002558.46179003870204789.davem@davemloft.net> <1352836286.16264.102.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, peter.senna@gmail.com, stable@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: ben@decadent.org.uk Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:38956 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2992461Ab2KODbr (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:31:47 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1352836286.16264.102.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Ben Hutchings Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 19:51:26 +0000 > On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 00:25 -0500, David Miller wrote: >> Please queue up the following networking bug fixes for >> 3.0.x, 3.2.x, 3.4.x, and 3.6.x, respectively. > [...] >> From 2204849a85383fbde75680aa199142abe504adbb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: Peter Senna Tschudin >> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 06:12:01 +0000 >> Subject: [PATCH 7/9] drivers/net/phy/mdio-bitbang.c: Call mdiobus_unregister >> before mdiobus_free >> >> [ Upstream commit aa731872f7d33dcb8b54dad0cfb82d4e4d195d7e ] >> >> Based on commit b27393aecf66199f5ddad37c302d3e0cfadbe6c0 >> >> Calling mdiobus_free without calling mdiobus_unregister causes >> BUG_ON(). This patch fixes the issue. > [...] > > This introduces a regresssion, as mdiobus_unregister() is not safe to > call if the bus isn't registered. Registration is controlled by the > drivers that use mdio-bitbang, and they should take care of > unregistration too - and most of them do. > > This should be reverted in mainline and not applied to any stable > series. Ok, I'll revert. Greg, please toss it from your -stable queue as well. Thanks!