netdev - Re: GRO with non napi driver: BUG in __napi

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Date:	Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:11:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	blaschka@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GRO with non napi driver: BUG in __napi_complete

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:22:44 +0800

> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 09:35:21AM +0100, Frank Blaschka wrote:
> >
> > What is the intention process_backlog calls __napi_complete() instead of
> > napi_complete(), this looks suspicious to me. Can anybody help?
> 
> You're absolutely right.  Dave, we need this fix for both net
> and net-next.
> 
> gro: Fix legacy path napi_complete crash
> 
> On the legacy netif_rx path, I incorrectly tried to optimise
> the napi_complete call by using __napi_complete before we reenable
> IRQs.  This simply doesn't work since we need to flush the held
> GRO packets first.
> 
> This patch fixes it by doing the obvious thing of reenabling
> IRQs first and then calling napi_complete.
> 
> Reported-by: Frank Blaschka <blaschka@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Applied, thanks.
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