lan78xx: Fix race condition in disconnect handling
If there is a device disconnect at roughly the same time as a deferred PHY link reset there is a race condition that can result in a kernel lock up due to a null pointer dereference in the driver's deferred work handling routine lan78xx_delayedwork(). The following changes fix this problem. Add new status flag EVENT_DEV_DISCONNECT to indicate when the device has been removed and use it to prevent operations, such as register access, that will fail once the device is removed. Stop processing of deferred work items when the driver's USB disconnect handler is invoked. Disconnect the PHY only after the network device has been unregistered and all delayed work has been cancelled. Signed-off-by: John Efstathiades <john.efstathiades@pebblebay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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