xen-netback: cancel the credit timer when taking the vif down
authorDavid Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Thu, 14 Feb 2013 03:18:58 +0000 (03:18 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:38:40 +0000 (05:38 -0800)
commit38bb1c83c40157e4e8f683069a55334be32ea403
tree3f5f862283b93771ffc82fa362403ef9fe0db738
parent8f56788f8d42ce5b5888ab7e9e7270646bcacd48
xen-netback: cancel the credit timer when taking the vif down

[ Upstream commit 3e55f8b306cf305832a4ac78aa82e1b40e818ece ]

If the credit timer is left armed after calling
xen_netbk_remove_xenvif(), then it may fire and attempt to schedule
the vif which will then oops as vif->netbk == NULL.

This may happen both in the fatal error path and during normal
disconnection from the front end.

The sequencing during shutdown is critical to ensure that: a)
vif->netbk doesn't become unexpectedly NULL; and b) the net device/vif
is not freed.

1. Mark as unschedulable (netif_carrier_off()).
2. Synchronously cancel the timer.
3. Remove the vif from the schedule list.
4. Remove it from it netback thread group.
5. Wait for vif->refcnt to become 0.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Reported-by: Christopher S. Aker <caker@theshore.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c