netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] netpoll: make sure napi

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Date:   Thu, 10 Sep 2020 13:09:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     kuba@...nel.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com, kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] netpoll: make sure napi_list is safe for
 RCU traversal

From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Date: Wed,  9 Sep 2020 10:37:50 -0700

> This series is a follow-up to the fix in commit 96e97bc07e90 ("net: 
> disable netpoll on fresh napis"). To avoid any latent race conditions
> convert dev->napi_list to a proper RCU list. We need minor restructuring
> because it looks like netif_napi_del() used to be idempotent, and
> it may be quite hard to track down everyone who depends on that.

Series applied, thanks Jakub.