On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 9:56 PM Heiner Kallweit <hkallwe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> When bringing down the netdevice (incl. detaching it) and calling
> netif_carrier_off directly or indirectly the latter triggers an
> asynchronous linkwatch event.
> This linkwatch event eventually may fail to access chip registers in
> the ndo_get_stats/ndo_get_stats64 callback because the device isn't
> accessible any longer, see call trace in [0].
>
> To prevent this scenario don't check for IFF_UP only, but also make
> sure that the netdevice is present.
>
> [0] https://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2018/03/15/62
>
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallwe...@gmail.com>
Survived 100 suspend/resume cycles on sh73a0/kzm9g and r8a73a4/ape6evm.
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+rene...@glider.be>
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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