If setting receive buffer fails, the error unwind would cause kernel panic because it was not correctly doing RCU and NAPI unwind. RCU'd pointer needs to be reset to NULL, and NAPI needs to be disabled not deleted. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c index 4c709b454d34..db95487807fd 100644 --- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c +++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c @@ -1307,7 +1307,8 @@ struct netvsc_device *netvsc_device_add(struct hv_device *device, return net_device; close: - netif_napi_del(&net_device->chan_table[0].napi); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(net_device_ctx->nvdev, NULL); + napi_disable(&net_device->chan_table[0].napi); /* Now, we can close the channel safely */ vmbus_close(device->channel); -- 2.11.0 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
