From: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 19:51:26 +0000
> On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 00:25 -0500, David Miller wrote: >> Please queue up the following networking bug fixes for >> 3.0.x, 3.2.x, 3.4.x, and 3.6.x, respectively. > [...] >> From 2204849a85383fbde75680aa199142abe504adbb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: Peter Senna Tschudin <[email protected]> >> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 06:12:01 +0000 >> Subject: [PATCH 7/9] drivers/net/phy/mdio-bitbang.c: Call mdiobus_unregister >> before mdiobus_free >> >> [ Upstream commit aa731872f7d33dcb8b54dad0cfb82d4e4d195d7e ] >> >> Based on commit b27393aecf66199f5ddad37c302d3e0cfadbe6c0 >> >> Calling mdiobus_free without calling mdiobus_unregister causes >> BUG_ON(). This patch fixes the issue. > [...] > > This introduces a regresssion, as mdiobus_unregister() is not safe to > call if the bus isn't registered. Registration is controlled by the > drivers that use mdio-bitbang, and they should take care of > unregistration too - and most of them do. > > This should be reverted in mainline and not applied to any stable > series. Ok, I'll revert. Greg, please toss it from your -stable queue as well. Thanks! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
