[PATCH net] net: octeon_mgmt: kill TX tasklet before freeing rings

From: Hongyan Xu

Date: Mon Sep 28 2026 - 10:02:23 EST


The interrupt handler schedules tx_clean_tasklet, which dereferences the
private state and TX ring. free_irq() prevents new scheduling but does
not wait for a tasklet that was already queued.

Kill the tasklet after freeing the interrupt and before purging and
freeing the DMA rings.

Fixes: d6aa60a10b2f ("NET: Add Ethernet driver for Octeon MGMT devices.")
Signed-off-by: Hongyan Xu <getshell@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
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);
--
2.50.1.windows.1