From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Alexander Stein , Marc Kleine-Budde Subject: [ 121/123] can: Do not call dev_put if restart timer is running upon close Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 12:36:00 -0800 Message-Id: <20130109201513.827016393@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20130109201458.392601412@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20130109201458.392601412@linuxfoundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.7-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Alexander Stein commit ab48b03ec9ae1840a1e427e2375bd0d9d554b4ed upstream. If the restart timer is running due to BUS-OFF and the device is disconnected an dev_put will decrease the usage counter to -1 thus blocking the interface removal, resulting in the following dmesg lines repeating every 10s: can: notifier: receive list not found for dev can0 can: notifier: receive list not found for dev can0 can: notifier: receive list not found for dev can0 unregister_netdevice: waiting for can0 to become free. Usage count = -1 Signed-off-by: Alexander Stein Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/can/dev.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/can/dev.c +++ b/drivers/net/can/dev.c @@ -609,8 +609,7 @@ void close_candev(struct net_device *dev { struct can_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev); - if (del_timer_sync(&priv->restart_timer)) - dev_put(dev); + del_timer_sync(&priv->restart_timer); can_flush_echo_skb(dev); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(close_candev);