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

    can: Do not call dev_put if restart timer is running upon close

to the 3.4-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:
     can-do-not-call-dev_put-if-restart-timer-is-running-upon-close.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From ab48b03ec9ae1840a1e427e2375bd0d9d554b4ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Stein <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 08:52:34 +0100
Subject: can: Do not call dev_put if restart timer is running upon close

From: Alexander Stein <[email protected]>

commit ab48b03ec9ae1840a1e427e2375bd0d9d554b4ed upstream.

If the restart timer is running due to BUS-OFF and the device is
disconnected an dev_put will decrease the usage counter to -1 thus
blocking the interface removal, resulting in the following dmesg
lines repeating every 10s:
can: notifier: receive list not found for dev can0
can: notifier: receive list not found for dev can0
can: notifier: receive list not found for dev can0
unregister_netdevice: waiting for can0 to become free. Usage count = -1

Signed-off-by: Alexander Stein <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/net/can/dev.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/can/dev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/can/dev.c
@@ -576,8 +576,7 @@ void close_candev(struct net_device *dev
 {
        struct can_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
 
-       if (del_timer_sync(&priv->restart_timer))
-               dev_put(dev);
+       del_timer_sync(&priv->restart_timer);
        can_flush_echo_skb(dev);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(close_candev);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from 
[email protected] are

queue-3.4/can-do-not-call-dev_put-if-restart-timer-is-running-upon-close.patch
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