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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] netvsc: add rcu_read locking to netvsc callback
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 16:31:01 -0500 (EST)
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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 09:16:32 -0800

> The receive callback (in tasklet context) is using RCU to get reference
> to associated VF network device but this is not safe. RCU read lock
> needs to be held. Found by running with full lockdep debugging
> enabled.
> 
> Fixes: f207c10d9823 ("hv_netvsc: use RCU to protect vf_netdev")
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
> ---
> v2 - fix commit message

Applied and queued up for -stable.