From: Eric Dumazet Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 06:24:12 +0000 (-0800) Subject: virtio-net: add a missing synchronize_net() X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=790fd11f9ed6d2558a516280c3bd1e25b0c64c90;p=GitHub%2Fexynos8895%2Fandroid_kernel_samsung_universal8895.git virtio-net: add a missing synchronize_net() [ Upstream commit 963abe5c8a0273a1cf5913556da1b1189de0e57a ] It seems many drivers do not respect napi_hash_del() contract. When napi_hash_del() is used before netif_napi_del(), an RCU grace period is needed before freeing NAPI object. Fixes: 91815639d880 ("virtio-net: rx busy polling support") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Jason Wang Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c index f94ab786088f..0e2a19e58923 100644 --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c @@ -1465,6 +1465,11 @@ static void virtnet_free_queues(struct virtnet_info *vi) netif_napi_del(&vi->rq[i].napi); } + /* We called napi_hash_del() before netif_napi_del(), + * we need to respect an RCU grace period before freeing vi->rq + */ + synchronize_net(); + kfree(vi->rq); kfree(vi->sq); }