netdev - Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for stable 3.10] xen-netback: drop SKB from internal queue if frontend is disconnected

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Date:	Fri, 11 Jul 2014 17:38:50 +0100
From:	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>
To:	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
CC:	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>, <xen-devel@...ts.xen.org>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>,
	Philipp Hahn <hahn@...vention.de>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for stable 3.10] xen-netback: drop SKB from
 internal queue if frontend is disconnected

On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 02:57:03PM +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 11/07/14 14:08, Wei Liu wrote:
> > 
> > --- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
> > @@ -720,6 +720,16 @@ static void xen_netbk_rx_action(struct xen_netbk *netbk)
> >  		vif = netdev_priv(skb->dev);
> >  		nr_frags = skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags;
> >  
> > +		/* In rare case that frontend is disconnected while
> > +		 * there's still SKBs stuck in netback internal
> > +		 * rx_queue, drop these SKBs.
> > +		 */
> > +		if (unlikely(!vif->ring_mapped)) {
> > +			dev_kfree_skb(skb);
> > +			xenvif_put(vif);
> > +			continue;
> > +		}
> 
> Is this racy?  The ring may be unmapped after the test but before we put
> responses on it.
> 

Hmm... there's still a window. Ignore this patch for now. I will need to
look further into a ref-counting solution.

Wei.

> David
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