netdev - Re: [PATCH net v4] xen-netback: fix race condition on XenBus disconnect

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Date:   Sun, 12 Mar 2017 23:45:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     igor.druzhinin@...rix.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org,
        paul.durrant@...rix.com, jgross@...e.com, wei.liu2@...rix.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v4] xen-netback: fix race condition on XenBus
 disconnect

From: Igor Druzhinin <igor.druzhinin@...rix.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 21:36:22 +0000

> In some cases during XenBus disconnect event handling and subsequent
> queue resource release there may be some TX handlers active on
> other processors. Use RCU in order to synchronize with them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Igor Druzhinin <igor.druzhinin@...rix.com>

Applied, thanks.