Re: [PATCH v2] xen-netfront: Fix Rx stall during network stress and OOM

[Vineeth Remanan Pillai]

On 01/29/2017 03:09 PM, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> There are couple of problems with this patch.
> 1. The 'if' clause now evaluates to true on pretty much every call to 
> xennet_alloc_rx_buffers().
Thanks for catching this. In my testing I did not notice this - mostly 
because of the nature of the workload in my testing.

> 2. It tickles a latent bug during resume where the timer triggers 
> before we re-connect. The trouble is that we now try to dereference 
> queue->rx.sring which is NULL since we disconnect in 
> netfront_resume(). (Curiously, I only observe it with 32-bit guests)
I think we may hit this bug after removing the timer as well. We call 
RING_PUSH_REQUESTS_AND_CHECK_NOTIFY soon after, which also dereference 
queue->rx.sring.

Thanks,
Vineeth