netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/3] net/smc: Resolve the race between link group access and termination

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Message-ID: <ee973642-6bae-e748-cea9-ed18bca461f0@linux.alibaba.com>
Date:   Tue, 11 Jan 2022 23:36:02 +0800
From:   Wen Gu <guwen@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     Karsten Graul <kgraul@...ux.ibm.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
        kuba@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/3] net/smc: Resolve the race between link group
 access and termination

Thanks for your review.

On 2022/1/11 4:23 pm, Karsten Graul wrote:
> On 10/01/2022 10:26, Wen Gu wrote:
>> We encountered some crashes caused by the race between the access
>> and the termination of link groups.
>>
> 
> These waiters (seaparate ones for smcd and smcr) are used to wait for all lgrs
> to be deleted when a module unload or reboot was triggered, so it must only be
> woken up when the lgr is actually freed.

Thanks for your reminding, I will move the wake-up code to __smc_lgr_free().

And maybe the vlan put and device put of smcd are also need to be moved
to __smc_lgr_free()?, because it also seems to be more suitable to put these
resources when lgr is actually freed. What do you think?

Thanks,
Wen Gu