From 4ca05c86fde5ea8fd6b1929cb0e14b7993de9ba1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Stein Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 08:52:34 +0100 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/can/dev.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/can/dev.c b/drivers/net/can/dev.c index c5fe3a3db8c9..e86f4c37f981 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); -- cgit v1.2.3