netdev - Re: [PATCH net] : add a missing rcu synchronization

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Date:   Wed, 16 Nov 2016 20:59:11 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, michael.chan@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] : add a missing rcu synchronization

On Wed, 2016-11-16 at 23:31 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 06:31:52 -0800
> 
> > From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> > 
> > Add a missing synchronize_net() call to avoid potential use after free,
> > since we explicitly call napi_hash_del() to factorize the RCU grace
> > period.
> > 
> > Fixes: c0c050c58d84 ("bnxt_en: New Broadcom ethernet driver.")
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> > Cc: Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>
> 
> Applied.

Thanks David for the title fix ;)