netdev - Re: [PATCH net] gro_cell: add napi_disable in gro_cells

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Date:   Wed, 19 Dec 2018 14:46:12 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:     lorenzo.bianconi@...hat.com
Cc:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] gro_cell: add napi_disable in gro_cells_destroy

On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 2:23 PM Lorenzo Bianconi
<lorenzo.bianconi@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> Add napi_disable routine in gro_cells_destroy since starting from
> commit c42858eaf492 ("gro_cells: remove spinlock protecting receive
> queues") gro_cell_poll and gro_cells_destroy can run concurrently on
> napi_skbs list producing a kernel Oops if the tunnel interface is
> removed while gro_cell_poll is running. The following Oops has been
> triggered removing a vxlan device while the interface is receiving
> traffic
>

This seems reasonable, I wonder why this bug has been hiding for so long...

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>