Re: [PATCH] xen-netfront: Delete rx_refill_timer in xennet_disconnect_backend()

[Eric Dumazet]

On Mon, 2017-01-30 at 12:45 -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> rx_refill_timer should be deleted as soon as we disconnect from the
> backend since otherwise it is possible for the timer to go off before
> we get to xennet_destroy_queues(). If this happens we may dereference
> queue->rx.sring which is set to NULL in xennet_disconnect_backend().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
>  drivers/net/xen-netfront.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
> index 8315fe7..722fe9f 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
> @@ -1379,6 +1379,8 @@ static void xennet_disconnect_backend(struct netfront_info *info)
>  	for (i = 0; i < num_queues && info->queues; ++i) {
>  		struct netfront_queue *queue = &info->queues[i];
>  
> +		del_timer_sync(&queue->rx_refill_timer);
> +

If napi_disable() was not called before this del_timer_sync(), another
RX might come here and rearm rx_refill_timer.

>  		if (queue->tx_irq && (queue->tx_irq == queue->rx_irq))
>  			unbind_from_irqhandler(queue->tx_irq, queue);
>  		if (queue->tx_irq && (queue->tx_irq != queue->rx_irq)) {
> @@ -1733,7 +1735,6 @@ static void xennet_destroy_queues(struct netfront_info *info)
>  
>  		if (netif_running(info->netdev))
>  			napi_disable(&queue->napi);
> -		del_timer_sync(&queue->rx_refill_timer);
>  		netif_napi_del(&queue->napi);
>  	}
>