netdev - Re: [PATCH net] : add a missing rcu synchronization

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Date:   Wed, 16 Nov 2016 07:59:55 -0800
From:   Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] : add a missing rcu synchronization

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 6:31 AM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
>
> Add a missing synchronize_net() call to avoid potential use after free,
> since we explicitly call napi_hash_del() to factorize the RCU grace
> period.
>
> Fixes: c0c050c58d84 ("bnxt_en: New Broadcom ethernet driver.")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Cc: Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>

Thanks.  Subject line is missing the driver name.  Other than that,

Acked-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>