netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2] ibmvnic: Do not process device remove during device reset

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Message-Id: <20200310.155821.931371329682717281.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 10 Mar 2020 15:58:21 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     julietk@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        tlfalcon@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] ibmvnic: Do not process device remove during
 device reset

From: Juliet Kim <julietk@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 09:23:58 -0500

> The ibmvnic driver does not check the device state when the device
> is removed. If the device is removed while a device reset is being
> processed, the remove may free structures needed by the reset,
> causing an oops.
> 
> Fix this by checking the device state before processing device remove.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Juliet Kim <julietk@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

Applied, thank you.