netdev - Re: [PATCH] Fix panic in virtnet

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Date:	Wed, 20 Jul 2011 08:17:33 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@...ibm.com>
Cc:	mst@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix panic in virtnet_remove

On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:13:39 +0530
Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@...ibm.com> wrote:

> Fix a panic in virtnet_remove. unregister_netdev has already
> freed up the netdev (and virtnet_info) due to dev->destructor
> being set, while virtnet_info is still required. Remove
> virtnet_free altogether, and move the freeing of the per-cpu
> statistics from virtnet_free to virtnet_remove.
> 
> Tested patch below.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@...ibm.com>

Need to check veth and xen for same problem.

Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
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