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    xen-netback: properly sync TX responses · 7b55984c
    Jan Beulich authored
    Invoking the make_tx_response() / push_tx_responses() pair with no lock
    held would be acceptable only if all such invocations happened from the
    same context (NAPI instance or dealloc thread). Since this isn't the
    case, and since the interface "spec" also doesn't demand that multicast
    operations may only be performed with no in-flight transmits,
    MCAST_{ADD,DEL} processing also needs to acquire the response lock
    around the invocations.
    
    To prevent similar mistakes going forward, "downgrade" the present
    functions to private helpers of just the two remaining ones using them
    directly, with no forward declarations anymore. This involves renaming
    what so far was make_tx_response(), for the new function of that name
    to serve the new (wrapper) purpose.
    
    While there,
    - constify the txp parameters,
    - correct xenvif_idx_release()'s status parameter's type,
    - rename {,_}make_tx_response()'s status parameters for consistency with
      xenvif_idx_release()'s.
    
    Fixes: 210c34dc ("xen-netback: add support for multicast control")
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarPaul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/980c6c3d-e10e-4459-8565-e8fbde122f00@suse.comSigned-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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