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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Zheng Wang <zyytlz.wz@163.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, horatiu.vultur@microchip.com,
	edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hackerzheng666@gmail.com,
	1395428693sheep@gmail.com, alex000young@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v3] net: ethernet: fix use after free bug in ns83820_remove_one  due to race condition
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 21:33:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230418213340.153529d7@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230417013107.360888-1-zyytlz.wz@163.com>

On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 09:31:07 +0800 Zheng Wang wrote:
> +	netif_carrier_off(ndev);
> +	netif_tx_disable(ndev);
> +
>  	unregister_netdev(ndev

It's not immediately obvious to me why disabling carrier and tx
are supposed to help. Please elaborate in the commit message if
you're confident that this is right.

-- 
pw-bot: cr

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-04-19  4:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-17  1:31 [PATCH net v3] net: ethernet: fix use after free bug in ns83820_remove_one due to race condition Zheng Wang
2023-04-18 11:44 ` Horatiu Vultur
2023-04-19  4:33 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2023-04-19  5:30   ` Zheng Hacker

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