staging/rdma/hfi1: Fix downgrade race
authorDean Luick <dean.luick@intel.com>
Tue, 17 Nov 2015 02:59:24 +0000 (21:59 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 21 Dec 2015 21:45:29 +0000 (13:45 -0800)
A link downgrade can race with link up. Avoid the race
in two ways. First, by having the downgrade application logic
take the link state mutex for all of its checking. Second, by
waiting for the link to move out of the going up state.

Reviewed-by: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dean Luick <dean.luick@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jubin John <jubin.john@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/rdma/hfi1/chip.c

index dc6915947c78d6cae88a3b83ea546d7ff5cd1baa..017d439b327a91bf005f9e399c33f44663dec530 100644 (file)
@@ -3907,18 +3907,32 @@ void handle_verify_cap(struct work_struct *work)
  */
 void apply_link_downgrade_policy(struct hfi1_pportdata *ppd, int refresh_widths)
 {
-       int skip = 1;
        int do_bounce = 0;
-       u16 lwde = ppd->link_width_downgrade_enabled;
+       int tries;
+       u16 lwde;
        u16 tx, rx;
 
+       /* use the hls lock to avoid a race with actual link up */
+       tries = 0;
+retry:
        mutex_lock(&ppd->hls_lock);
        /* only apply if the link is up */
-       if (ppd->host_link_state & HLS_UP)
-               skip = 0;
-       mutex_unlock(&ppd->hls_lock);
-       if (skip)
-               return;
+       if (!(ppd->host_link_state & HLS_UP)) {
+               /* still going up..wait and retry */
+               if (ppd->host_link_state & HLS_GOING_UP) {
+                       if (++tries < 1000) {
+                               mutex_unlock(&ppd->hls_lock);
+                               usleep_range(100, 120); /* arbitrary */
+                               goto retry;
+                       }
+                       dd_dev_err(ppd->dd,
+                                  "%s: giving up waiting for link state change\n",
+                                  __func__);
+               }
+               goto done;
+       }
+
+       lwde = ppd->link_width_downgrade_enabled;
 
        if (refresh_widths) {
                get_link_widths(ppd->dd, &tx, &rx);
@@ -3956,6 +3970,9 @@ void apply_link_downgrade_policy(struct hfi1_pportdata *ppd, int refresh_widths)
                do_bounce = 1;
        }
 
+done:
+       mutex_unlock(&ppd->hls_lock);
+
        if (do_bounce) {
                set_link_down_reason(ppd, OPA_LINKDOWN_REASON_WIDTH_POLICY, 0,
                  OPA_LINKDOWN_REASON_WIDTH_POLICY);