Commit 963abe5c authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller

virtio-net: add a missing synchronize_net()

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: 91815639 ("virtio-net: rx busy polling support")
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent a7741713
......@@ -1497,6 +1497,11 @@ 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);
}
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