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authorAlexander Stein <alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com>2012-11-27 08:52:34 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-01-11 09:07:18 -0800
commit4ca05c86fde5ea8fd6b1929cb0e14b7993de9ba1 (patch)
treeaef77458a5bcf79ba78f34b0752ff0dc9f5cef54 /drivers
parentc0c7cf289528474c46ce4e851ed33c467c32720c (diff)
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can: Do not call dev_put if restart timer is running upon close
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 <alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/can/dev.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/can/dev.c b/drivers/net/can/dev.c
index c5fe3a3db8c..e86f4c37f98 100644
--- 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);