From: Ian Campbell Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 09:48:41 +0100 Subject: xen/netfront: teardown the device before unregistering it. Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/675190 Fixes: [ 15.470311] WARNING: at /local/scratch/ianc/devel/kernels/linux/fs/sysfs/file.c:498 sysfs_attr_ns+0x95/0xa0() [ 15.470326] sysfs: kobject eth0 without dirent [ 15.470333] Modules linked in: [ 15.470342] Pid: 12, comm: xenwatch Not tainted 3.4.0-x86_32p-xenU #93 and [ 9.150554] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 2b359000 [ 9.150577] IP: [] linkwatch_do_dev+0x81/0xc0 [ 9.150592] *pdpt = 000000002c3c9027 *pde = 0000000000000000 [ 9.150604] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP [ 9.150613] Modules linked in: This is http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=675190 Reported-by: George Shuklin Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell Tested-by: William Dauchy Cc: stable@kernel.org Cc: 675190@bugs.debian.org --- drivers/net/xen-netfront.c | 8 ++++---- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c +++ b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c @@ -1922,14 +1922,14 @@ dev_dbg(&dev->dev, "%s\n", dev->nodename); - unregister_netdev(info->netdev); - xennet_disconnect_backend(info); - del_timer_sync(&info->rx_refill_timer); - xennet_sysfs_delif(info->netdev); + unregister_netdev(info->netdev); + + del_timer_sync(&info->rx_refill_timer); + free_percpu(info->stats); free_netdev(info->netdev);