Re: [PATCH net 2/2] virtio-net: refill only when device is up during setting queues

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On 10/14/2013 07:09 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 05:56:35PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>> > We used to schedule the refill work unconditionally after changing the
>> > number of queues. This may lead an issue if the device is not
>> > up. Since we only try to cancel the work in ndo_stop(), this may cause
>> > the refill work still work after removing the device. Fix this by only
>> > schedule the work when device is up.
>> > 
>> > The bug were introduce by commit 9b9cd8024a2882e896c65222aa421d461354e3f2.
>> > (virtio-net: fix the race between channels setting and refill)
>> > 
>> > Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> It bothers me that we look at the flag without any
> locks here.
> I think we'll need to take the rtnl lock at least
> on restore.
>

True, will post v2.
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