Re: [PATCH net V2 2/2] virtio-net: refill only when device is upduring setting queues

From: David Miller
Date: Thu Oct 17 2013 - 15:56:08 EST


From: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 11:18:59 +0800

> We used to schedule the refill work unconditionally after changing the
> number of queues. This may lead an issue if the device is not
> up. Since we only try to cancel the work in ndo_stop(), this may cause
> the refill work still work after removing the device. Fix this by only
> schedule the work when device is up.
>
> The bug were introduce by commit 9b9cd8024a2882e896c65222aa421d461354e3f2.
> (virtio-net: fix the race between channels setting and refill)
>
> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks Jason.
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