From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Matt Sealey , Jeremy Linton , Andrew Lunn , "David S. Miller" , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 4.14 229/496] net: smsc911x: Fix unload crash when link is up Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 12:00:14 +0200 Message-Id: <20180528100329.557355173@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20180528100319.498712256@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20180528100319.498712256@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Jeremy Linton [ Upstream commit e06513d78d54e6c7026c9043a39e2c01ee25bdbe ] The smsc911x driver will crash if it is rmmod'ed while the netdev is up like: Call trace: phy_detach+0x94/0x150 phy_disconnect+0x40/0x50 smsc911x_stop+0x104/0x128 [smsc911x] __dev_close_many+0xb4/0x138 dev_close_many+0xbc/0x190 rollback_registered_many+0x140/0x460 rollback_registered+0x68/0xb0 unregister_netdevice_queue+0x100/0x118 unregister_netdev+0x28/0x38 smsc911x_drv_remove+0x58/0x130 [smsc911x] platform_drv_remove+0x30/0x50 device_release_driver_internal+0x15c/0x1f8 driver_detach+0x54/0x98 bus_remove_driver+0x64/0xe8 driver_unregister+0x34/0x60 platform_driver_unregister+0x20/0x30 smsc911x_cleanup_module+0x14/0xbca8 [smsc911x] SyS_delete_module+0x1e8/0x238 __sys_trace_return+0x0/0x4 This is caused by the mdiobus being unregistered/free'd and the code in phy_detach() attempting to manipulate mdio related structures from unregister_netdev() calling close() To fix this, we delay the mdiobus teardown until after the netdev is deregistered. Reported-by: Matt Sealey Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c @@ -2335,14 +2335,14 @@ static int smsc911x_drv_remove(struct pl pdata = netdev_priv(dev); BUG_ON(!pdata); BUG_ON(!pdata->ioaddr); - WARN_ON(dev->phydev); SMSC_TRACE(pdata, ifdown, "Stopping driver"); + unregister_netdev(dev); + mdiobus_unregister(pdata->mii_bus); mdiobus_free(pdata->mii_bus); - unregister_netdev(dev); res = platform_get_resource_byname(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, "smsc911x-memory"); if (!res)