netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ibmvnic: Do not process reset during or after device removal

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Date:   Wed, 28 Aug 2019 15:46:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     tlfalcon@...ux.ibm.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ibmvnic: Do not process reset during or after
 device removal

From: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@...ux.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 11:10:04 -0500

> Currently, the ibmvnic driver will not schedule device resets
> if the device is being removed, but does not check the device
> state before the reset is actually processed. This leads to a race
> where a reset is scheduled with a valid device state but is
> processed after the driver has been removed, resulting in an oops.
> 
> Fix this by checking the device state before processing a queued
> reset event.
> 
> Reported-by: Abdul Haleem <abdhalee@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Tested-by: Abdul Haleem <abdhalee@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@...ux.ibm.com>

Applied.