bnx2x: prevent race in statistics flow
authorDmitry Kravkov <dmitry@broadcom.com>
Sun, 13 Nov 2011 04:34:30 +0000 (04:34 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sun, 13 Nov 2011 21:03:56 +0000 (16:03 -0500)
The race may cause access of registers while MAC hw block is
in reset state. As a result syslog will show error messages.
We can prevent this by using state from local variable.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kravkov <dmitry@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_stats.c

index 02ac6a771bf99eaa254ee9c66e199dfbe70552df..3034f0e319387d97a78a1932bc55c17e4e5c2627 100644 (file)
@@ -1349,12 +1349,14 @@ void bnx2x_stats_handle(struct bnx2x *bp, enum bnx2x_stats_event event)
        enum bnx2x_stats_state state;
        if (unlikely(bp->panic))
                return;
-       bnx2x_stats_stm[bp->stats_state][event].action(bp);
+
        spin_lock_bh(&bp->stats_lock);
        state = bp->stats_state;
        bp->stats_state = bnx2x_stats_stm[state][event].next_state;
        spin_unlock_bh(&bp->stats_lock);
 
+       bnx2x_stats_stm[state][event].action(bp);
+
        if ((event != STATS_EVENT_UPDATE) || netif_msg_timer(bp))
                DP(BNX2X_MSG_STATS, "state %d -> event %d -> state %d\n",
                   state, event, bp->stats_state);