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-rw-r--r--net/core/netpoll.c9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c
index c85f740065fc..09f72f10813c 100644
--- a/net/core/netpoll.c
+++ b/net/core/netpoll.c
@@ -554,6 +554,7 @@ int __netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np, struct net_device *ndev)
int err;
skb_queue_head_init(&np->skb_pool);
+ INIT_WORK(&np->refill_wq, refill_skbs_work_handler);
if (ndev->priv_flags & IFF_DISABLE_NETPOLL) {
np_err(np, "%s doesn't support polling, aborting\n",
@@ -591,7 +592,6 @@ int __netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np, struct net_device *ndev)
/* fill up the skb queue */
refill_skbs(np);
- INIT_WORK(&np->refill_wq, refill_skbs_work_handler);
/* last thing to do is link it to the net device structure */
rcu_assign_pointer(ndev->npinfo, npinfo);
@@ -811,6 +811,10 @@ static void __netpoll_cleanup(struct netpoll *np)
if (!npinfo)
return;
+ /* At this point, there is a single npinfo instance per netdevice, and
+ * its refcnt tracks how many netpoll structures are linked to it. We
+ * only perform npinfo cleanup when the refcnt decrements to zero.
+ */
if (refcount_dec_and_test(&npinfo->refcnt)) {
const struct net_device_ops *ops;
@@ -820,8 +824,7 @@ static void __netpoll_cleanup(struct netpoll *np)
RCU_INIT_POINTER(np->dev->npinfo, NULL);
call_rcu(&npinfo->rcu, rcu_cleanup_netpoll_info);
- } else
- RCU_INIT_POINTER(np->dev->npinfo, NULL);
+ }
skb_pool_flush(np);
}