This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: l2tp_eth: fix kernel panic on rmmod l2tp_eth
to the 3.0-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
net-l2tp_eth-fix-kernel-panic-on-rmmod-l2tp_eth.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From b389c83bcb28fc61400c33a91a8571f5c556bf29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 00:07:20 +0000
Subject: net: l2tp_eth: fix kernel panic on rmmod l2tp_eth
From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
[ Upstream commit a06998b88b1651c5f71c0e35f528bf2057188ead ]
We must prevent module unloading if some devices are still attached to
l2tp_eth driver.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Denys Fedoryshchenko <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Denys Fedoryshchenko <[email protected]>
Cc: James Chapman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
net/l2tp/l2tp_eth.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/net/l2tp/l2tp_eth.c
+++ b/net/l2tp/l2tp_eth.c
@@ -167,6 +167,7 @@ static void l2tp_eth_delete(struct l2tp_
if (dev) {
unregister_netdev(dev);
spriv->dev = NULL;
+ module_put(THIS_MODULE);
}
}
}
@@ -254,6 +255,7 @@ static int l2tp_eth_create(struct net *n
if (rc < 0)
goto out_del_dev;
+ __module_get(THIS_MODULE);
/* Must be done after register_netdev() */
strlcpy(session->ifname, dev->name, IFNAMSIZ);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.0/be2net-fix-a-race-in-be_xmit.patch
queue-3.0/bonding-fix-corrupted-queue_mapping.patch
queue-3.0/netpoll-fix-netpoll_send_udp-bugs.patch
queue-3.0/dummy-fix-rcu_sched-self-detected-stalls.patch
queue-3.0/net-l2tp_eth-fix-kernel-panic-on-rmmod-l2tp_eth.patch
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