On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 04:23:06PM -0800, Jesse Gross wrote: > We currently call vport_free() for internal devices after the > device is unregistered. This takes care of callers that use > either RTNL or RCU but not ones that have only a device reference. > In particular, if stats are requested while a datapath is being > unregistered we can try to use the vport data structures which > have already been freed. > > Bug #4736 > > Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <[email protected]>
I guess that you are talking about a stats request that comes through the network stack, not one that comes through the Open vSwitch userspace interface? Good catch. Thanks! Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev_openvswitch.org
