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

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Message-Id: <20161116.233106.2234599506618839323.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 16 Nov 2016 23:31:06 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, michael.chan@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] : add a missing rcu synchronization

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 06:31:52 -0800

> 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>

Applied.