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From: Yuanhan Liu <yliu@fridaylinux.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/virtio-user: fix crash when detaching
	device
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2017 17:25:17 +0800
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On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 08:41:37AM -0400, Allain Legacy wrote:
> The rte_eth_dev.data pointer is set to a reference to a static table.
> Attempting to rte_free() it leads to a panic.  For example, the
> following commands result in a panic if run in testpmd
> 
>   testpmd> port attach virtio_user0,path=/dev/vhost-net,iface=test0
>   testpmd> port stop 2
>   testpmd> port close 2
>   testpmd> port detach 2
> 
> Fixes: ce2eabdd43ec ("net/virtio-user: add virtual device")

Note that it's prefered (and asked) to add stable tag inside the commit log.

    Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Applied to dpdk-next-virtio, with above tag added.

Thanks.

	--yliu