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* [PATCHv1 net] xen-netback: stop the VIF thread before unbinding IRQs
@ 2013-11-21 15:26 David Vrabel
  2013-11-21 15:50 ` Wei Liu
  2013-11-21 18:17 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: David Vrabel @ 2013-11-21 15:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xen-devel
  Cc: David Vrabel, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, Boris Ostrovsky,
	Ian Campbell, Wei Liu, netdev

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>
---
 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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