[PATCH] net: octeon: mgmt: drain TX cleanup tasklet on stop
From: Jiale Yao
Date: Sun Oct 18 2026 - 00:07:38 EST
The management port IRQ schedules tx_clean_tasklet after disabling TX
interrupts. free_irq() stops the hard IRQ, but a tasklet queued before
that point can still access the TX queue, ring and device registers
while ndo_stop releases them.
Kill the tasklet after freeing the IRQ and before purging the queues and
freeing the rings.
Fixes: d6aa60a10b2f ("NET: Add Ethernet driver for Octeon MGMT devices.")
Signed-off-by: Jiale Yao <yaojiale02@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/octeon/octeon_mgmt.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/octeon/octeon_mgmt.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/octeon/octeon_mgmt.c
index c190fc6538d4..2cf3365b9636 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/octeon/octeon_mgmt.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/octeon/octeon_mgmt.c
@@ -1254,6 +1254,7 @@ static int octeon_mgmt_stop(struct net_device *netdev)
octeon_mgmt_reset_hw(p);
free_irq(p->irq, netdev);
+ tasklet_kill(&p->tx_clean_tasklet);
/* dma_unmap is a nop on Octeon, so just free everything. */
skb_queue_purge(&p->tx_list);
--
2.34.1