Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 3 authors, 2012-01-28

Re: [PATCH] vhost-net: Acquire device lock when releasing device

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Date: 2011-11-27 16:48:41
Also in: kvm, lkml, virtualization

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 03:45:03PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
From: Sasha Levin <redacted>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:19:42 +0200
quoted
Device lock should be held when releasing a device, and specifically
when calling vhost_dev_cleanup(). Otherwise, RCU complains about it:
 ...
quoted
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <redacted>
Michael et al., are you guys going to gather this fix or should I
apply it directly to thet net tree?

Thanks.
I think it needs a small tweak before being applied.

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