[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "sunvnet: vnet_port_remove must call unregister_netdev" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    sunvnet: vnet_port_remove must call unregister_netdev

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.6.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp at oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 16:49:22 -0500
Subject: sunvnet: vnet_port_remove must call unregister_netdev

[ Upstream commit aabb9875d02559ab9b928cd6f259a5cc4c21a589 ]

The missing call to unregister_netdev() leaves the interface active
after the driver is unloaded by rmmod.

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet.c
index e1b8955..fb6f3e3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet.c
@@ -1242,6 +1242,8 @@ static int vnet_port_remove(struct vio_dev *vdev)
 		dev_set_drvdata(&vdev->dev, NULL);

 		kfree(port);
+
+		unregister_netdev(vp->dev);
 	}
 	return 0;
 }
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1.8.1.2