netdev - Re: [PATCH net] openvswitch: Return vport module ref before destruction

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Date:	Mon, 30 Mar 2015 11:19:07 -0700
From:	Pravin Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
To:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"dev@...nvswitch.org" <dev@...nvswitch.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] openvswitch: Return vport module ref before destruction

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 4:57 AM, Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch> wrote:
> Return module reference before invoking the respective vport
> ->destroy() function. This is needed as ovs_vport_del() is not
> invoked inside an RCU read side critical section so the kfree
> can occur immediately before returning to ovs_vport_del().
>
> Returning the module reference before ->destroy() is safe because
> the module unregistration is blocked on ovs_lock which we hold
> while destroying the datapath.
>
> Fixes: 62b9c8d0372d ("ovs: Turn vports with dependencies into separate modules")
> Reported-by: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>

looks good.
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
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