[PATCH net-next 7/8] netvsc: save pointer to parent netvsc_device in channel table

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Wed Jul 19 18:53:18 UTC 2017


Keep back pointer in the per-channel data structure to
avoid any possible RCU related issues when napi poll is
called but netvsc_device is in RCU limbo.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin at microsoft.com>
---
 drivers/net/hyperv/hyperv_net.h | 1 +
 drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c     | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/hyperv_net.h b/drivers/net/hyperv/hyperv_net.h
index 0054b6929f6e..d13572879e7e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hyperv/hyperv_net.h
+++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/hyperv_net.h
@@ -727,6 +727,7 @@ struct net_device_context {
 /* Per channel data */
 struct netvsc_channel {
 	struct vmbus_channel *channel;
+	struct netvsc_device *net_device;
 	const struct vmpacket_descriptor *desc;
 	struct napi_struct napi;
 	struct multi_send_data msd;
diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c
index 3c6f3ae520d9..c15640c6fd83 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c
@@ -1224,11 +1224,11 @@ int netvsc_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
 {
 	struct netvsc_channel *nvchan
 		= container_of(napi, struct netvsc_channel, napi);
+	struct netvsc_device *net_device = nvchan->net_device;
 	struct vmbus_channel *channel = nvchan->channel;
 	struct hv_device *device = netvsc_channel_to_device(channel);
 	u16 q_idx = channel->offermsg.offer.sub_channel_index;
 	struct net_device *ndev = hv_get_drvdata(device);
-	struct netvsc_device *net_device = net_device_to_netvsc_device(ndev);
 	int work_done = 0;
 
 	/* If starting a new interval */
@@ -1307,6 +1307,7 @@ struct netvsc_device *netvsc_device_add(struct hv_device *device,
 		struct netvsc_channel *nvchan = &net_device->chan_table[i];
 
 		nvchan->channel = device->channel;
+		nvchan->net_device = net_device;
 	}
 
 	/* Enable NAPI handler before init callbacks */
-- 
2.11.0



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