[patch for 2.6.25? 1/1] bonding: fix sysfs attribute handling

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From: akpm
Date: Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 12:47 am

From: Libor Pechacek <lpechacek@suse.cz>

For bonding interfaces any attempt to read the sysfs directory contents after
module removal results in an oops.  The fix is to release sysfs attributes for
the interfaces upon module unload.

Signed-off-by: Libor Pechacek <lpechacek@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c~bonding-fix-sysfs-attribute-handling drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c~bonding-fix-sysfs-attribute-handling
+++ a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
@@ -4528,8 +4528,7 @@ static void bond_free_all(void)
 		netif_tx_unlock_bh(bond_dev);
 		/* Release the bonded slaves */
 		bond_release_all(bond_dev);
-		bond_deinit(bond_dev);
-		unregister_netdevice(bond_dev);
+		bond_destroy(bond);
 	}
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
_
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