From: Jorgen Hansen <jhan...@vmware.com> Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 04:53:56 -0700
> In the vsock vmci_transport driver, sock_put wasn't safe to call > in interrupt context, since that may call the vsock destructor > which in turn calls several functions that should only be called > from process context. This change defers the callling of these > functions to a worker thread. All these functions were > deallocation of resources related to the transport itself. > > Furthermore, an unused callback was removed to simplify the > cleanup. > > Multiple customers have been hitting this issue when using > VMware tools on vSphere 2015. > > Also added a version to the vmci transport module (starting from > 1.0.2.0-k since up until now it appears that this module was > sharing version with vsock that is currently at 1.0.1.0-k). > > Reviewed-by: Aditya Asarwade <asarw...@vmware.com> > Reviewed-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellst...@vmware.com> > Signed-off-by: Jorgen Hansen <jhan...@vmware.com> Applied, thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
