netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: eth: altera: fix napi poll

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Date:	Thu, 03 Sep 2015 15:35:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	nemoto@...hiba-tops.co.jp
Cc:	vbridger@...nsource.altera.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: eth: altera: fix napi poll_list corruption

 From: Atsushi Nemoto <nemoto@...hiba-tops.co.jp>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 15:01:02 +0900

> On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 22:32:54 -0700, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>>> I think napi_gro_flush() can be called with irq enabled, so moving the
>>> spin_lock_irqsave() just before the __napi_complete() (or moving the
>>> __napi_complete() just after the spin_lock_irqsave()) would be better,
>>> right?
>> 
>> It should work, yes.
> 
> Thank you.  But I agree with Eric's last comment ("Calling
> napi_gro_flush() and __napi_complete() looks error prone."), and found
> that napi_complete_done() also checks NAPI_STATE_NPSVC to support
> NETPOLL.  These checks looks somewhat redundant but I like simple way
> unless it is really critical to performance.
> 
> So, please take original fix as is.

Fair enough, applied and queued up for -stable.
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