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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2016-11-15 22:24:12 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-11-16 15:09:29 -0500
commit963abe5c8a0273a1cf5913556da1b1189de0e57a (patch)
tree9fbe435e14eb3f7b1ae33d14181bc6ee42739b54 /drivers
parenta7741713dd361f081e5b48c04f59d0bbb1f32ed3 (diff)
virtio-net: add a missing synchronize_net()
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/virtio_net.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index fd8b1e62301f..7276d5a95bd0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -1497,6 +1497,11 @@ 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);
}