netdev - NAPI complete race backport?

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Date:   Thu, 16 Mar 2017 16:25:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     edumazet@...gle.com
CC:     eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: NAPI complete race backport?

Eric, could you please give me a backport of commit:

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>From 39e6c8208d7b6fb9d2047850fb3327db567b564b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 10:34:50 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] net: solve a NAPI race
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for 4.10 and earlier?

This is before __napi_complete() is removed, so the empty poll list
handling in napi_complete_done() needs to be a bit different.

Thanks!