diff mbox

[3.5.y.z,extended,stable] Patch "sunvnet: vnet_port_remove must call unregister_netdev" has been added to staging queue

Message ID 1374763321-18141-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com
State New
Headers show

Commit Message

Luis Henriques July 25, 2013, 2:42 p.m. UTC
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    sunvnet: vnet_port_remove must call unregister_netdev

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

------

From 4ab0e372161bd9e7216d7e1ff9d9937ed30f9af0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 16:49:22 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] sunvnet: vnet_port_remove must call unregister_netdev

commit aabb9875d02559ab9b928cd6f259a5cc4c21a589 upstream.

The missing call to unregister_netdev() leaves the interface active
after the driver is unloaded by rmmod.

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--
1.8.1.2
diff mbox

Patch

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet.c
index a108db3..1d68059 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet.c
@@ -1243,6 +1243,8 @@  static int vnet_port_remove(struct vio_dev *vdev)
 		dev_set_drvdata(&vdev->dev, NULL);

 		kfree(port);
+
+		unregister_netdev(vp->dev);
 	}
 	return 0;
 }