netdev - Re: [PATCH] Fix panic in virtnet

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Date:	Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:19:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	krkumar2@...ibm.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, shemminger@...tta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix panic in virtnet_remove

From: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@...ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:46:50 +0530

> modprobe -r virtio_net panics in free_netdev() as the
> dev is already freed in the newly introduced virtnet_free
> (commit 3fa2a1df9094). Since virtnet_remove doesn't require
> dev after unregister, I am removing the free_netdev call
> in virtnet_remove instead of in virtnet_free (which seems
> to be the right place to free the dev). Confirmed that
> the panic is fixed with this patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@...ibm.com>

I guess the virtio NET maintainers don't deserve to get CC:'d on a fix
like this? :-(

Michael Tsirkin is who maintains this driver actively and is the one
who will merge this kind of fix to me, therefore if you don't CC:
him it might not get integrated at all.
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