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| author | Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> | 2016-11-15 22:24:12 -0800 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2016-12-10 19:07:22 +0100 |
| commit | 790fd11f9ed6d2558a516280c3bd1e25b0c64c90 (patch) | |
| tree | 88b7d5831feec00ef2e95400ee5f5b20b9e385ad | |
| parent | e5f84c1444ae59c85bd25ba05393c6bc87067ddb (diff) | |
virtio-net: add a missing synchronize_net()
[ Upstream commit 963abe5c8a0273a1cf5913556da1b1189de0e57a ]
It seems many drivers do not respect napi_hash_del() contract.
When napi_hash_del() is used before netif_napi_del(), an RCU grace
period is needed before freeing NAPI object.
Fixes: 91815639d880 ("virtio-net: rx busy polling support")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c index f94ab786088f..0e2a19e58923 100644 --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c @@ -1465,6 +1465,11 @@ static void virtnet_free_queues(struct virtnet_info *vi) netif_napi_del(&vi->rq[i].napi); } + /* We called napi_hash_del() before netif_napi_del(), + * we need to respect an RCU grace period before freeing vi->rq + */ + synchronize_net(); + kfree(vi->rq); kfree(vi->sq); } |