Patch "xen-netback: protect resource cleaning on XenBus disconnect" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    xen-netback: protect resource cleaning on XenBus disconnect

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     xen-netback-protect-resource-cleaning-on-xenbus-disconnect.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Mon Jul  3 11:54:13 CEST 2017
From: Igor Druzhinin <igor.druzhinin@citrix.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 20:49:38 +0000
Subject: xen-netback: protect resource cleaning on XenBus disconnect

From: Igor Druzhinin <igor.druzhinin@citrix.com>


[ Upstream commit f16f1df65f1cf139ff9e9f84661e6573d6bb27fc ]

vif->lock is used to protect statistics gathering agents from using the
queue structure during cleaning.

Signed-off-by: Igor Druzhinin <igor.druzhinin@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c |    6 ++++--
 drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c    |    2 ++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
@@ -221,18 +221,18 @@ static struct net_device_stats *xenvif_g
 {
 	struct xenvif *vif = netdev_priv(dev);
 	struct xenvif_queue *queue = NULL;
-	unsigned int num_queues = vif->num_queues;
 	unsigned long rx_bytes = 0;
 	unsigned long rx_packets = 0;
 	unsigned long tx_bytes = 0;
 	unsigned long tx_packets = 0;
 	unsigned int index;
 
+	spin_lock(&vif->lock);
 	if (vif->queues == NULL)
 		goto out;
 
 	/* Aggregate tx and rx stats from each queue */
-	for (index = 0; index < num_queues; ++index) {
+	for (index = 0; index < vif->num_queues; ++index) {
 		queue = &vif->queues[index];
 		rx_bytes += queue->stats.rx_bytes;
 		rx_packets += queue->stats.rx_packets;
@@ -241,6 +241,8 @@ static struct net_device_stats *xenvif_g
 	}
 
 out:
+	spin_unlock(&vif->lock);
+
 	vif->dev->stats.rx_bytes = rx_bytes;
 	vif->dev->stats.rx_packets = rx_packets;
 	vif->dev->stats.tx_bytes = tx_bytes;
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c
@@ -503,9 +503,11 @@ static void backend_disconnect(struct ba
 		for (queue_index = 0; queue_index < be->vif->num_queues; ++queue_index)
 			xenvif_deinit_queue(&be->vif->queues[queue_index]);
 
+		spin_lock(&be->vif->lock);
 		vfree(be->vif->queues);
 		be->vif->num_queues = 0;
 		be->vif->queues = NULL;
+		spin_unlock(&be->vif->lock);
 
 		xenvif_disconnect_ctrl(be->vif);
 	}


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from igor.druzhinin@citrix.com are

queue-4.9/xen-netback-protect-resource-cleaning-on-xenbus-disconnect.patch
queue-4.9/xen-netback-fix-memory-leaks-on-xenbus-disconnect.patch