netdev - Re: [PATCHv1 net] xen-netback: stop the VIF thread before unbinding IRQs

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Message-Id: <20131121.131751.1231978152112137182.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 21 Nov 2013 13:17:51 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	david.vrabel@...rix.com
Cc:	xen-devel@...ts.xen.org, konrad.wilk@...cle.com,
	boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com, ian.campbell@...rix.com,
	wei.liu2@...rix.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv1 net] xen-netback: stop the VIF thread before
 unbinding IRQs

From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:26:09 +0000

> From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
> 
> If the VIF thread is still running after unbinding the Tx and Rx IRQs
> in xenvif_disconnect(), the thread may attempt to raise an event which
> will BUG (as the irq is unbound).
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>

Applied.
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