netdev - Re: [PATCH] netback: don't store invalid vif pointer

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Message-Id: <20141209.183025.2098328465942240354.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 09 Dec 2014 18:30:25 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	JBeulich@...e.com
Cc:	wei.liu2@...rix.com, Ian.Campbell@...citrix.com,
	xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netback: don't store invalid vif pointer

From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...e.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 11:47:04 +0000

> When xenvif_alloc() fails, it returns a non-NULL error indicator. To
> avoid eventual races, we shouldn't store that into struct backend_info
> as readers of it only check for NULL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...e.com>

Applied, thanks.
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