Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] vsock/virtio: fix flush of works during the .remove()

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On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 02:36:59PM +0200, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> This patch moves the flush of works after vdev->config->del_vqs(vdev),
> because we need to be sure that no workers run before to free the
> 'vsock' object.
> 
> Since we stopped the workers using the [tx|rx|event]_run flags,
> we are sure no one is accessing the device while we are calling
> vdev->config->reset(vdev), so we can safely move the workers' flush.

What about send_pkt and loopback work?  How were they stopped safely?

For example, if send_pkt work executes then we're in trouble since it
accesses the tx virtqueue which is deleted by ->del_vqs().

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