On 10/04/2013 06:53 PM, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 12:57:19PM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
This patch set comprises some one-liners to fix issues with repeated
loading and unloading of a modular mv643xx_eth driver.
First two patches take care of the periodic port statistic timer, that
updates statistics by reading port registers using add_timer/mod_timer.
Patch 1 moves timer re-schedule from mib_counters_update to the timer
callback. As mib_counters_update is also called from non-timer context,
this ensures the timer is reactivated from timer context only.
Patch 2 moves initial timer schedule from _probe() time to right before
the port is actually started as the corresponding del_timer_sync is at
_stop() time. This fixes a regression, where unloading the driver from a
non-started eth device can cause the timer to access deallocated mem.
Patch 3 adds an assignment of the ports device_node to the corresponding
self-created platform_device. This is required to allow fixups based on
the device_node's compatible string later. Actually, it is also a potential
regression because we already check compatible string for Kirkwood, but
does not (yet) rely on the fixup.
All patches are based on v3.12-rc3 and have been tested on Kirkwood-based
Seagate Dockstar.
Patches 1 and 2 can also possibly queued up for -stable.
Sebastian Hesselbarth (3):
net: mv643xx_eth: update statistics timer from timer context only
net: mv643xx_eth: fix orphaned statistics timer crash
net: mv643xx_eth: fix missing device_node for port devices
drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mv643xx_eth.c | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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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
Sorry for missing this series, somehow my filters failed to catch it.
Anyway, I would expect these patches to have my Reported-by, but I'm
glad to see you've solved all the issues.
True, thanks to Ezequiel for initially reporting the issues. I will
have to be more careful about the Reported-by next time.
I see David has already applied them all, but I'll re-run my tests to
check there aren't any more issues if I can find some time next week.
Thanks for taking care of it!
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