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-rw-r--r--drivers/hv/channel.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/hv/channel.c b/drivers/hv/channel.c
index 23f358cb7f49..256ee90c7446 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/channel.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/channel.c
@@ -609,6 +609,12 @@ void vmbus_reset_channel_cb(struct vmbus_channel *channel)
* the former is accessing channel->inbound.ring_buffer, the latter
* could be freeing the ring_buffer pages, so here we must stop it
* first.
+ *
+ * vmbus_chan_sched() might call the netvsc driver callback function
+ * that ends up scheduling NAPI work that accesses the ring buffer.
+ * At this point, we have to ensure that any such work is completed
+ * and that the channel ring buffer is no longer being accessed, cf.
+ * the calls to napi_disable() in netvsc_device_remove().
*/
tasklet_disable(&channel->callback_event);