netdev - Re: [PATCH net] nfp: move indirect block cleanup to flower app stop callback

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Date:   Thu, 17 Dec 2020 11:05:54 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        oss-drivers@...ronome.com, Louis Peens <louis.peens@...ronome.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] nfp: move indirect block cleanup to flower app stop
 callback

On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 15:57:01 +0100 Simon Horman wrote:
> The indirect block cleanup may cause control messages to be sent
> if offloaded flows are present. However, by the time the flower app
> cleanup callback is called txbufs are no longer available and attempts
> to send control messages result in a NULL-pointer dereference in
> nfp_ctrl_tx_one().
> 
> This problem may be resolved by moving the indirect block cleanup
> to the stop callback, where txbufs are still available.
> 
> As suggested by Jakub Kicinski and Louis Peens.
> 
> Fixes: a1db217861f3 ("net: flow_offload: fix flow_indr_dev_unregister path")
> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>
> Signed-off-by: Louis Peens <louis.peens@...ronome.com>

Applied, thank you!