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From: Greg KH <gregkh@...>
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Cc: Justin Forbes <jmforbes@...>, Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@...>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@...>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...>, Dave Jones <davej@...>, Chuck Wolber <chuckw@...>, Chris Wedgwood <reviews@...>, Michael Krufky <mkrufky@...>, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...>, Domenico Andreoli <cavokz@...>, Willy Tarreau <w@...>, Rodrigo Rubira Branco <rbranco@...>, Jake Edge <jake@...>, Eugene Teo <eteo@...>, <torvalds@...>, <akpm@...>, <alan@...>, <greg@...>, <chrisw@...>, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...>, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@...>, John W. Linville <linville@...>, Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@...>
Subject: [patch 25/25] Ath5k: kill tasklets on shutdown
Date: Monday, August 4, 2008 - 5:30 pm

2.6.26-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us
know.

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From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>

commit 10488f8ad62be3b860bad74e60b4fe6ab87aece3 upstream

Don't forget to kill tasklets on stop to not panic if they
fire after freeing some structures.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c
@@ -2453,6 +2453,9 @@ ath5k_stop_hw(struct ath5k_softc *sc)
 	mutex_unlock(&sc->lock);
 
 	del_timer_sync(&sc->calib_tim);
+	tasklet_kill(&sc->rxtq);
+	tasklet_kill(&sc->txtq);
+	tasklet_kill(&sc->restq);
 
 	return ret;
 }

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