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Patch "rocker: free netdevice during netdevice removal" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

rocker: free netdevice during netdevice removal

to the 4.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
rocker-free-netdevice-during-netdevice-removal.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From foo@baz Sat Sep 26 11:13:07 PDT 2015

From: Ido Schimmel <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2015 19:29:16 +0200
Subject: rocker: free netdevice during netdevice removal

From: Ido Schimmel <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 1ebd47efa4e17391dfac8caa349c6a8d35f996d1 ]

When removing a port's netdevice in 'rocker_remove_ports', we should also free the allocated 'net_device' structure. Do that by calling 'free_netdev' after unregistering it.

Fixes 4b8ac9660af ("rocker: introduce rocker switch driver")
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker.c +1 -0
@@ -4587,6 +4587,7 @@ static void rocker_remove_ports(struct r
 		rocker_port = rocker->ports[i];
 		rocker_port_ig_tbl(rocker_port, ROCKER_OP_FLAG_REMOVE);
 		unregister_netdev(rocker_port->dev);
+		free_netdev(rocker_port->dev);
 	}
 	kfree(rocker->ports);
 }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.1/rocker-free-netdevice-during-netdevice-removal.patch