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hv_netvsc: Fix race condition on Multi-Send Data field
authorHaiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Thu, 10 Dec 2015 20:19:35 +0000 (12:19 -0800)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 14 Dec 2015 05:02:06 +0000 (00:02 -0500)
commitd21cdc54d92194c38d3e901ea3e643c96dc73675
treeffe1bc8b5f456c63a1e1dc4a2c8e9660353451f2
parente714b39ceae453913e3881c00656b00da1ea7306
hv_netvsc: Fix race condition on Multi-Send Data field

In commit d22d1f3d3a8d ("hv_netvsc: remove locking in netvsc_send()"), the
locking for MSD (Multi-Send Data) field was removed. This could cause a
race condition between RNDIS control messages and data packets processing,
because these two types of traffic are not synchronized.
This patch fixes this issue by sending control messages out directly
without reading MSD field.

Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c