Re: [PATCH] vhost-net: Acquire device lock when releasing device

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 03:45:03PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:19:42 +0200
> 
> > Device lock should be held when releasing a device, and specifically
> > when calling vhost_dev_cleanup(). Otherwise, RCU complains about it:
>  ...
> > Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Michael et al., are you guys going to gather this fix or should I
> apply it directly to thet net tree?
> 
> Thanks.

I think it needs a small tweak before being applied.

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