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sunvnet: Fix race between vnet_start_xmit() and vnet_ack()

PATCH In review Sowmini Varadhan 1 participant 1 message Nov 9, 2014

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PATCH 1/3 sunvnet: Fix race between vnet_start_xmit() and vnet_ack()

When vnet_start_xmit() is concurrent with vnet_ack(), we may have a race that looks like:

thread 1 thread 2
vnet_start_xmit vnet_event_napi -> vnet_rx

__vnet_tx_trigger for some desc X
at this point dr->prod == X
peer sends back a stopped ack for X we process X, but X == dr->prod so we bail out in vnet_ack with !idx_is_pending
update dr->prod

As a result of the fact that we never processed the stopped ack for X, the Tx path is led to incorrectly believe that the peer is still "started" and reading, but the peer has stopped reading, which will ultimately end in flow-control assertions.

The fix is to synchronize the above 2 paths on the netif_tx_lock.

---
 drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet.c | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet.c +6 -4
index 5c5fb59..deb395a 100644
@@ -559,15 +559,17 @@ static int vnet_ack(struct vnet_port *port, void *msgbuf)
 		return 0;
 
 	end = pkt->end_idx;
-	if (unlikely(!idx_is_pending(dr, end)))
-		return 0;
-
 	vp = port->vp;
 	dev = vp->dev;
+	netif_tx_lock(dev);
+	if (unlikely(!idx_is_pending(dr, end))) {
+		netif_tx_unlock(dev);
+		return 0;
+	}
+
 	/* sync for race conditions with vnet_start_xmit() and tell xmit it
 	 * is time to send a trigger.
 	 */
-	netif_tx_lock(dev);
 	dr->cons = next_idx(end, dr);
 	desc = vio_dring_entry(dr, dr->cons);
 	if (desc->hdr.state == VIO_DESC_READY && port->start_cons) {
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