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. Wei. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
