netdev - Re: [PATCH] Fix panic in virtnet

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Date:	Sat, 16 Jul 2011 11:02:43 +0530
From:	Krishna Kumar2 <krkumar2@...ibm.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, shemminger@...tta.com, mst@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix panic in virtnet_remove

David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote on 07/15/2011 08:49:09 PM:

> > 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.

Sorry, but it was not intentional. I saw that Stephen had
made that change so cc'd him instead.

Michael, I am attaching the patch below, please let me know if
you need it inlined:


(See attached file: patch)

Thanks,

- KK
Download attachment "patch" of type "application/octet-stream" (921 bytes)