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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: haiyangz@microsoft.com
Cc: wenqi_ma@trendmicro.com.cn, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kys@microsoft.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/hyperv: Adding cancellation to ensure rndis filter is closed
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:38:34 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120421.153834.2113475722956246267.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A1F3067C9B68744AA19F6802BAB8FFDC0DD33BA8@TK5EX14MBXC221.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>

From: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:18:41 +0000

>> From: Wenqi Ma [mailto:wenqi_ma@trendmicro.com.cn]
>> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 6:40 AM
>> To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
>> Cc: davem@davemloft.net; Haiyang Zhang; Wenqi Ma
>> Subject: [PATCH] net/hyperv: Adding cancellation to ensure rndis filter is
>> closed
>> 
>> Although the network interface is down, the RX packets number which
>> could be observed by ifconfig may keep on increasing.
>> 
>> This is because the WORK scheduled in netvsc_set_multicast_list()
>> may be executed after netvsc_close(). That means the rndis filter
>> may be re-enabled by do_set_multicast() even if it was closed by
>> netvsc_close().
>> 
>> By canceling possible WORK before close the rndis filter, the issue
>> could be never happened.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Wenqi Ma <wenqi_ma@trendmicro.com.cn>
>> Reviewed-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
 ...
> Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>

Applied.

      reply	other threads:[~2012-04-21 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-19 10:39 [PATCH] net/hyperv: Adding cancellation to ensure rndis filter is closed Wenqi Ma
2012-04-19 15:18 ` Haiyang Zhang
2012-04-21 19:38   ` David Miller [this message]

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