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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jasowang@redhat.com
Cc: mst@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] virtio-net: correct error handling of virtqueue_kick()
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 13:14:11 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140327.131411.1257894502376926151.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1395810180-35169-1-git-send-email-jasowang@redhat.com>

From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 13:03:00 +0800

> Current error handling of virtqueue_kick() was wrong in two places:
> - The skb were freed immediately when virtqueue_kick() fail during
>   xmit. This may lead double free since the skb was not detached from
>   the virtqueue.
> - try_fill_recv() returns false when virtqueue_kick() fail. This will
>   lead unnecessary rescheduling of refill work.
> 
> Actually, it's safe to just ignore the kick failure in those two
> places. So this patch fixes this by partially revert commit
> 67975901183799af8e93ec60e322f9e2a1940b9b.
> 
> Fixes 67975901183799af8e93ec60e322f9e2a1940b9b
> (virtio_net: verify if virtqueue_kick() succeeded).
> 
> Cc: Heinz Graalfs <graalfs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-03-27 17:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-26  5:03 [PATCH net] virtio-net: correct error handling of virtqueue_kick() Jason Wang
2014-03-26  6:59 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-03-27 17:14 ` David Miller [this message]

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