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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: mst@redhat.com
Cc: krkumar2@in.ibm.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, shemminger@vyatta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH repost] Fix panic in virtnet_remove
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:29:50 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110721.212950.1991725607632413241.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110720143115.GB6787@redhat.com>

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:31:15 +0300

> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 07:26:02PM +0530, Krishna Kumar wrote:
>> Fix a panic in virtnet_remove. unregister_netdev has already
>> freed up the netdev (and virtnet_info) due to dev->destructor
>> being set, while virtnet_info is still required. Remove
>> virtnet_free altogether, and move the freeing of the per-cpu
>> statistics from virtnet_free to virtnet_remove.
>> 
>> Tested patch below.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
> 
> Also note that the crash was apparently introduced by
> 3fa2a1df909482cc234524906e4bd30dee3514df in net-next,
> so this is a net-next only patch.
> 
> Stephen, was there any special reason to free the memory
> in the destructor like you did?
> 
> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

Applied.

      reply	other threads:[~2011-07-22  4:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-20 13:56 [PATCH repost] Fix panic in virtnet_remove Krishna Kumar
2011-07-20 14:31 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-07-22  4:29   ` David Miller [this message]

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