netdev - Re: [PATCH] net-next: korina: Fix NAPI versus resources freeing

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Date:   Wed, 4 Jan 2017 06:24:52 -0800
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net-next: korina: Fix NAPI versus resources freeing

On 01/04/2017 01:31 AM, John Crispin wrote:
> From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
> 
> Commit beb0babfb77e ("korina: disable napi on close and restart")
> introduced calls to napi_disable() that were missing before,
> unfortunately this leaves a small window during which NAPI has a chance
> to run, yet we just freed resources since korina_free_ring() has been
> called:
> 
> Fix this by disabling NAPI first then freeing resource, and make sure
> that we also cancel the restart taks before doing the resource freeing.
> 
> Fixes: beb0babfb77e ("korina: disable napi on close and restart")

I submitted this patch to 'net' already, but thanks for doing it!
-- 
Florian