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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/slip')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/slip/slip.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/slip/slip.c b/drivers/net/slip/slip.c index bc84e2cc0502..59daf095cad6 100644 --- a/drivers/net/slip/slip.c +++ b/drivers/net/slip/slip.c @@ -628,9 +628,15 @@ static void sl_uninit(struct net_device *dev) struct slip *sl = netdev_priv(dev); sl_free_bufs(sl); + /* Drop the slip_devs[] entry here rather than from the destructor: + * ndo_uninit runs under RTNL, so it cannot race sl_sync(). + */ + slip_devs[dev->base_addr] = NULL; } -/* Hook the destructor so we can free slip devices at the right point in time */ +/* Only for the slip_open() error path: register_netdevice() can fail before + * ndo_init, and then ndo_uninit is not called either. + */ static void sl_free_netdev(struct net_device *dev) { int i = dev->base_addr; @@ -657,7 +663,6 @@ static void sl_setup(struct net_device *dev) { dev->netdev_ops = &sl_netdev_ops; dev->needs_free_netdev = true; - dev->priv_destructor = sl_free_netdev; dev->hard_header_len = 0; dev->addr_len = 0; @@ -908,7 +913,7 @@ static void slip_close(struct tty_struct *tty) #endif /* Flush network side */ unregister_netdev(sl->dev); - /* This will complete via sl_free_netdev */ + /* sl_uninit() has dropped the slip_devs[] entry by now */ } static void slip_hangup(struct tty_struct *tty) |