[SCSI] bnx2fc: fix panic in bnx2fc_post_io_req
System panics while accessing stale pointer - timer_work_queue - in the IO path
before bnx2fc_stop is called. Fix is to destroy the workqueue after the destroy
operation is complete.
Signed-off-by: Bhanu Prakash Gollapudi <bprakash@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/bnx2fc_fcoe.c b/drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/bnx2fc_fcoe.c
index 8c6156a..10cf5d9 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/bnx2fc_fcoe.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/bnx2fc_fcoe.c
@@ -1537,6 +1537,7 @@
static int bnx2fc_destroy(struct net_device *netdev)
{
struct bnx2fc_interface *interface = NULL;
+ struct workqueue_struct *timer_work_queue;
int rc = 0;
rtnl_lock();
@@ -1549,9 +1550,9 @@
goto netdev_err;
}
-
- destroy_workqueue(interface->timer_work_queue);
+ timer_work_queue = interface->timer_work_queue;
__bnx2fc_destroy(interface);
+ destroy_workqueue(timer_work_queue);
netdev_err:
mutex_unlock(&bnx2fc_dev_lock);