This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

s390/qeth: free netdevice when removing a card

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: s390-qeth-free-netdevice-when-removing-a-card.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Thu Mar 29 08:33:08 CEST 2018

From: Julian Wiedmann jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 07:59:12 +0100 Subject: s390/qeth: free netdevice when removing a card

From: Julian Wiedmann jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com

[ Upstream commit 6be687395b3124f002a653c1a50b3260222b3cd7 ]

On removal, a qeth card's netdevice is currently not properly freed because the call chain looks as follows:

qeth_core_remove_device(card) lx_remove_device(card) unregister_netdev(card->dev) card->dev = NULL !!! qeth_core_free_card(card) if (card->dev) !!! free_netdev(card->dev)

Fix it by free'ing the netdev straight after unregistering. This also fixes the sysfs-driven layer switch case (qeth_dev_layer2_store()), where the need to free the current netdevice was not considered at all.

Note that free_netdev() takes care of the netif_napi_del() for us too.

Fixes: 4a71df50047f ("qeth: new qeth device driver") Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com Reviewed-by: Ursula Braun ubraun@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c | 2 -- drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c | 2 +- drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c | 2 +- 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c +++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c @@ -4969,8 +4969,6 @@ static void qeth_core_free_card(struct q QETH_DBF_HEX(SETUP, 2, &card, sizeof(void *)); qeth_clean_channel(&card->read); qeth_clean_channel(&card->write); - if (card->dev) - free_netdev(card->dev); kfree(card->ip_tbd_list); qeth_free_qdio_buffers(card); unregister_service_level(&card->qeth_service_level); --- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c +++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c @@ -1062,8 +1062,8 @@ static void qeth_l2_remove_device(struct qeth_l2_set_offline(cgdev);

if (card->dev) { - netif_napi_del(&card->napi); unregister_netdev(card->dev); + free_netdev(card->dev); card->dev = NULL; } return; --- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c +++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c @@ -3243,8 +3243,8 @@ static void qeth_l3_remove_device(struct qeth_l3_set_offline(cgdev);

if (card->dev) { - netif_napi_del(&card->napi); unregister_netdev(card->dev); + free_netdev(card->dev); card->dev = NULL; }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com are

queue-4.4/s390-qeth-when-thread-completes-wake-up-all-waiters.patch queue-4.4/s390-qeth-lock-read-device-while-queueing-next-buffer.patch queue-4.4/net-iucv-free-memory-obtained-by-kzalloc.patch queue-4.4/s390-qeth-on-channel-error-reject-further-cmd-requests.patch queue-4.4/s390-qeth-free-netdevice-when-removing-a-card.patch