The patch below does not apply to the 3.14-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.
thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From 2807bd18cc60ec471917b5158e98e4d7b7e030fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aaron Lu <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 14:34:07 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] ACPI / thermal: fix workqueue destroy order When the thermal module is to be removed, we should destroy the wq acpi_thermal_pm_queue after the ACPI driver's remove callback is executed as we will need to flush the workqueue there, or a NULL pointer access will be hit. Reported-and-tested-by: Kui Zhang <[email protected]> References: http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg1747251.html Cc: All applicable <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/thermal.c b/drivers/acpi/thermal.c index c1e31a41f949..25bbc55dca89 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/thermal.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/thermal.c @@ -1278,8 +1278,8 @@ static int __init acpi_thermal_init(void) static void __exit acpi_thermal_exit(void) { - destroy_workqueue(acpi_thermal_pm_queue); acpi_bus_unregister_driver(&acpi_thermal_driver); + destroy_workqueue(acpi_thermal_pm_queue); return; } -- 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
