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If there is a device disconnect at roughly the same time as a deferred PHY link reset there is a race condition that can result in a kernel lock up due to a null pointer dereference in the driver's deferred work handling routine lan78xx_delayedwork(). The following changes fix this problem. Add new status flag EVENT_DEV_DISCONNECT to indicate when the device has been removed and use it to prevent operations, such as register access, that will fail once the device is removed. Stop processing of deferred work items when the driver's USB disconnect handler is invoked. Disconnect the PHY only after the network device has been unregistered and all delayed work has been cancelled. Signed-off-by: John Efstathiades <john.efstathiades@pebblebay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.