Re: [PATCH 4.4 18/31] r8152: napi hangup fix after disconnect

[Ben Hutchings]

On Fri, 2018-07-20 at 14:13 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 4.4-stable review patch.ÂÂIf anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
> 
> [ Upstream commit 0ee1f4734967af8321ecebaf9c74221ace34f2d5 ]
[...]
> --- a/drivers/net/usb/r8152.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/usb/r8152.c
> @@ -3139,7 +3139,8 @@ static int rtl8152_close(struct net_devi
> Â#ifdef CONFIG_PM_SLEEP
> Â	unregister_pm_notifier(&tp->pm_notifier);
> Â#endif
> -	napi_disable(&tp->napi);
> +	if (!test_bit(RTL8152_UNPLUG, &tp->flags))
> +		napi_disable(&tp->napi);
> Â	clear_bit(WORK_ENABLE, &tp->flags);
> Â	usb_kill_urb(tp->intr_urb);
> Â	cancel_delayed_work_sync(&tp->schedule);

This flag appears to be set only if the USB device is actually
disconnected.  In case the driver is unbound for some other reason
(like the module is removed), the same problem will occur.

What I think might work is to do:

	if (!list_empty(&tp->napi.dev_list)
		napi_disable(&tp->napi);

Ben.

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