Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: netback: remove redundant xenvif_put

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>]

On Tue, 2013-02-19 at 18:06 +0000, David Miller wrote:
> From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:58:44 +0000
> 
> > On Tue, 2013-02-19 at 08:03 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> >>> On 19.02.13 at 06:53, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> >> > From: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
> >> > Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:29:20 +0100
> >> > 
> >> >> netbk_fatal_tx_err() calls xenvif_carrier_off(), which does
> >> >> a xenvif_put(). As callers of netbk_fatal_tx_err should only
> >> >> have one reference to the vif at this time, then the xenvif_put
> >> >> in netbk_fatal_tx_err is one too many.
> >> >> 
> >> >> Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
> >> > 
> >> > Applied.
> >> 
> >> But this is wrong from all we can tell,
> > 
> > Yes, please can this be reverted.
> 
> Done and I've annotated the revert commit message with as much
> information as possible.

Thanks, 629821d9b looks good to me.

May be worth considering the patch in
<1361281636.1051.100.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> if we get many more
of these queries...

Ian.