On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 12:57:21PM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote: > The periodic statistics timer gets started at port _probe() time, but > is stopped on _stop() only. In a modular environment, this can cause > the timer to access already deallocated memory, if the module is unloaded > without starting the eth device. To fix this, we add the timer right > before the port is started, instead of at _probe() time. > > Signed-off-by: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselba...@gmail.com> > --- > Cc: David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> > Cc: Lennert Buytenhek <buyt...@wantstofly.org> > Cc: Jason Cooper <ja...@lakedaemon.net> > Cc: net...@vger.kernel.org > Cc: linux-arm-ker...@lists.infradead.org > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > --- > drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mv643xx_eth.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Acked-by: Jason Cooper <ja...@lakedaemon.net> Introduced by: 4ff3495a mv643xx_eth: enforce frequent hardware statistics polling which also goes all the way back to v2.6.28 thx, Jason. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
