On Sat, 2016-12-03 at 07:00 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-11-16 at 07:26 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > From: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>
> >
> > Calling napi_hash_del() before netif_napi_del() is dangerous
> > if a synchronize_rcu() is not enforced before NAPI struct freeing.
> >
> > Lets leave this detail to core networking stack to get it right.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>
> > Cc: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirs...@intel.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c | 6 ------
> > 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c
> > b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c
> > index 7eaac3234049..bf4d7efc7dbd 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c
> > @@ -2511,9 +2511,6 @@ static int ixgbevf_alloc_q_vectors(struct
> > ixgbevf_adapter *adapter)
> > while (q_idx) {
> > q_idx--;
> > q_vector = adapter->q_vector[q_idx];
> > -#ifdef CONFIG_NET_RX_BUSY_POLL
> > - napi_hash_del(&q_vector->napi);
> > -#endif
> > netif_napi_del(&q_vector->napi);
> > kfree(q_vector);
> > adapter->q_vector[q_idx] = NULL;
> > @@ -2537,9 +2534,6 @@ static void ixgbevf_free_q_vectors(struct
> > ixgbevf_adapter *adapter)
> > struct ixgbevf_q_vector *q_vector = adapter-
> > >q_vector[q_idx];
> >
> > adapter->q_vector[q_idx] = NULL;
> > -#ifdef CONFIG_NET_RX_BUSY_POLL
> > - napi_hash_del(&q_vector->napi);
> > -#endif
> > netif_napi_del(&q_vector->napi);
> > kfree(q_vector);
> > }
> >
> >
>
> It looks this patch was not picked up ?Yeah, sorry I missed it since it was not sent to intel-wired-lan mailing list. Dave I am fine if you want to pick this up for your net tree (if it is not too late).
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