From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Kamal Mostafa To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: Richard Weinberger , "David S. Miller" , Kamal Mostafa Subject: [PATCH 3.8 115/124] net,via-rhine: Fix tx_timeout handling Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 11:40:55 -0800 Message-Id: <1392061264-28124-116-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> In-Reply-To: <1392061264-28124-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> References: <1392061264-28124-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.8.13.18 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Richard Weinberger [ Upstream commit a926592f5e4e900f3fa903298c4619a131e60963 ] rhine_reset_task() misses to disable the tx scheduler upon reset, this can lead to a crash if work is still scheduled while we're resetting the tx queue. Fixes: [ 93.591707] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000004c [ 93.595514] IP: [] rhine_napipoll+0x491/0x6 Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- drivers/net/ethernet/via/via-rhine.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/via/via-rhine.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/via/via-rhine.c index 3b96bfa..7eb1963 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/via/via-rhine.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/via/via-rhine.c @@ -1600,6 +1600,7 @@ static void rhine_reset_task(struct work_struct *work) goto out_unlock; napi_disable(&rp->napi); + netif_tx_disable(dev); spin_lock_bh(&rp->lock); /* clear all descriptors */ -- 1.8.3.2