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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c

b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
index aed985e08e8a..11f28fd03057 100644

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c

@@ -2235,8 +2235,7 @@ static void __ibmvnic_reset(struct work_struct

*work)
      while (rwi) {
              spin_lock_irqsave(&adapter->state_lock, flags);

-             if (adapter->state == VNIC_REMOVING ||
-                 adapter->state == VNIC_REMOVED) {
+             if (adapter->state == VNIC_REMOVED) {

If we do get here, we would crash because ibmvnic_remove() happened. It
frees the adapter struct already.

Not exactly. viodev is gone; netdev is gone; ibmvnic_adapter is still there.

Lijun