Re: [Xen-devel] [[PATCH stable <3.12]] xen-netback: fix refcnt unbalance for 3.11 and earlier versions

[David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 13:13:46 +0000

> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 01:08:53PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> On Thu, 2013-11-28 at 12:48 +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
>> > With the introduction of "xen-netback: Don't destroy the netdev until
>> > the vif is shut down" (upstream commit id 279f438e36), vif disconnect
>> > and free are separated. However in the backported verion reference
>> > counting code was not correctly modified, and the reset of vif->tx_irq
>> > was lost. If frontend goes through vif life cycle more than once the
>> > reference counting is skewed.
>> > 
>> > This patch adds back the missing tx_irq reset line. It also moves
>> > several lines of the reference counting code to vif_free, so the moved
>> > code corresponds to the counterpart in vif_alloc, thus the reference
>> > counting is balanced.
>> 
>> Is this a requirement of the bugfix or just to make reasoning about
>> things easier?
>> 
> 
> The latter.

I've queued this up for -stable, thanks.

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