Re: [PATCHv1 net] xen-netback: stop the VIF thread before unbinding IRQs

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 03:26:09PM +0000, David Vrabel wrote:
> From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
> 
> If the VIF thread is still running after unbinding the Tx and Rx IRQs
> in xenvif_disconnect(), the thread may attempt to raise an event which
> will BUG (as the irq is unbound).
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>

Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>

Thanks
Wei.

> ---
>  drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c |    6 +++---
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c b/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
> index b78ee10..2329ccc 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
> @@ -461,6 +461,9 @@ void xenvif_disconnect(struct xenvif *vif)
>  	if (netif_carrier_ok(vif->dev))
>  		xenvif_carrier_off(vif);
>  
> +	if (vif->task)
> +		kthread_stop(vif->task);
> +
>  	if (vif->tx_irq) {
>  		if (vif->tx_irq == vif->rx_irq)
>  			unbind_from_irqhandler(vif->tx_irq, vif);
> @@ -471,9 +474,6 @@ void xenvif_disconnect(struct xenvif *vif)
>  		vif->tx_irq = 0;
>  	}
>  
> -	if (vif->task)
> -		kthread_stop(vif->task);
> -
>  	xenvif_unmap_frontend_rings(vif);
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 1.7.2.5
> 
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