Re: [PATCH v2] xen-netfront: avoid crashing on resume after a failure in talk_to_netback()
From: David Miller
Date: Thu May 11 2017 - 21:39:19 EST
From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 13:58:06 +0200
> Unavoidable crashes in netfront_resume() and netback_changed() after a
> previous fail in talk_to_netback() (e.g. when we fail to read MAC from
> xenstore) were discovered. The failure path in talk_to_netback() does
> unregister/free for netdev but we don't reset drvdata and we try accessing
> it after resume.
>
> Fix the bug by removing the whole xen device completely with
> device_unregister(), this guarantees we won't have any calls into netfront
> after a failure.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes since v1: instead of cleaning drvdata and checking for it in
> netfront_resume() and netback_changed() remove the device completely with
> device_unregister() [David Miller]
This looks a lot better, applied, thanks!