Re: [PATCH net] virtio-net: add a missing synchronize_net()

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 10:24:12PM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@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 <edumazet@google.com>
> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@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);
>  }
>