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authorStephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>2017-03-05 04:13:57 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-03-16 10:42:00 +0300
commit8200f2085abe7f29a016381f3122000cc7b2a760 (patch)
tree63b48dc913ec3f3726ec3eb79cafc56ecdcb2822 /include/linux
parentc6240cacdb2c3cb56a21fb3ea0c105154ab87a2a (diff)
downloadlinux-8200f2085abe7f29a016381f3122000cc7b2a760.tar.xz
vmbus: use rcu for per-cpu channel list
The per-cpu channel list is now referred to in the interrupt routine. This is mostly safe since the host will not normally generate an interrupt when channel is being deleted but if it did then there would be a use after free problem. To solve, this use RCU protection on ther per-cpu list. Fixes: 631e63a9f346 ("vmbus: change to per channel tasklet") Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/hyperv.h7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/hyperv.h b/include/linux/hyperv.h
index 62bbf3c1aa4a..c4c7ae91f9d1 100644
--- a/include/linux/hyperv.h
+++ b/include/linux/hyperv.h
@@ -845,6 +845,13 @@ struct vmbus_channel {
* link up channels based on their CPU affinity.
*/
struct list_head percpu_list;
+
+ /*
+ * Defer freeing channel until after all cpu's have
+ * gone through grace period.
+ */
+ struct rcu_head rcu;
+
/*
* For performance critical channels (storage, networking
* etc,), Hyper-V has a mechanism to enhance the throughput