From: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> 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 <eduma...@google.com> Cc: Jason Wang <jasow...@redhat.com> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> --- drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) 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); }