Re: [PATCH for-next 9/9] RDMA/rxe: Protect pending send packets

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On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 01:26:23PM -0500, Bob Pearson wrote:
> On 7/31/23 13:17, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 03:50:22PM -0500, Bob Pearson wrote:
> >> Network interruptions may cause long delays in the processing of
> >> send packets during which time the rxe driver may be unloaded.
> >> This will cause seg faults when the packet is ultimately freed as
> >> it calls the destructor function in the rxe driver. This has been
> >> observed in cable pull fail over fail back testing.
> > 
> > No, module reference counts are only for code that is touching
> > function pointers.
> 
> this is exactly the case here. it is the skb destructor function that
> is carried by the skb.

It can't possibly call it correctly without also having the rxe
ib_device reference too though??

Jason



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