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

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

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.
> 
> Before the vdev->config->del_vqs(vdev), workers can be scheduled
> by VQ callbacks, so we must flush them after del_vqs(), to avoid
> use-after-free of 'vsock' object.

Nevermind, I looked back at Patch 2 and saw the send_pkt and loopback
work functions were also updated.  Thanks!

Stefan

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