Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:28:04 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Elias Oltmanns <eo@nebensachen.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, jejb@kernel.org,
       Justin Forbes <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>,
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       alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>,
       "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 27/27] ath5k: fix suspend-related oops on rmmod
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On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:36:24PM +0200, Elias Oltmanns wrote:
> Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> > 2.6.27-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us 
> > know.
> >
> > ------------------
> > From: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
> >
> > commit 8bdd5b9c6bd53add260756b6673a0545fbdbba21 upstream
> >
> > Based on a patch by Elias Oltmanns, we call ath5k_init in resume even
> > if we didn't previously open the device.  Besides starting up the
> > device unnecessarily, this also causes an oops on rmmod because
> > mac80211 will not invoke ath5k_stop and softirqs are left running after
> > the module has been unloaded.  Add a new state bit, ATH_STAT_STARTED,
> > to indicate that we have been started up.
> >
> > Reported-by: Toralf F?rster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Elias Oltmanns <eo@nebensachen.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
> > Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
> 
> I've done some more testing and I'm ashamed to say that this patch is
> incomplete and does indeed introduce a regression itself. Having only
> just sent the fix to John, I'm afraid this patch has to be deferred for
> the next stable release since the required fix is not likely to hit
> Linus' tree in time. Anyway, I'm adding my patch and the changelog entry
> by way of explanation.

Ok, I've dropped this from the 2.6.27-stable queue now, thanks for
letting me know.

greg k-h
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