vmxnet3: fix netpoll race condition
authorNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 10:55:55 +0000 (06:55 -0400)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 20:13:55 +0000 (16:13 -0400)
vmxnet3's netpoll driver is incorrectly coded.  It directly calls
vmxnet3_do_poll, which is the driver internal napi poll routine.  As the netpoll
controller method doesn't block real napi polls in any way, there is a potential
for race conditions in which the netpoll controller method and the napi poll
method run concurrently.  The result is data corruption causing panics such as this
one recently observed:
PID: 1371   TASK: ffff88023762caa0  CPU: 1   COMMAND: "rs:main Q:Reg"
 #0 [ffff88023abd5780] machine_kexec at ffffffff81038f3b
 #1 [ffff88023abd57e0] crash_kexec at ffffffff810c5d92
 #2 [ffff88023abd58b0] oops_end at ffffffff8152b570
 #3 [ffff88023abd58e0] die at ffffffff81010e0b
 #4 [ffff88023abd5910] do_trap at ffffffff8152add4
 #5 [ffff88023abd5970] do_invalid_op at ffffffff8100cf95
 #6 [ffff88023abd5a10] invalid_op at ffffffff8100bf9b
    [exception RIP: vmxnet3_rq_rx_complete+1968]
    RIP: ffffffffa00f1e80  RSP: ffff88023abd5ac8  RFLAGS: 00010086
    RAX: 0000000000000000  RBX: ffff88023b5dcee0  RCX: 00000000000000c0
    RDX: 0000000000000000  RSI: 00000000000005f2  RDI: ffff88023b5dcee0
    RBP: ffff88023abd5b48   R8: 0000000000000000   R9: ffff88023a3b6048
    R10: 0000000000000000  R11: 0000000000000002  R12: ffff8802398d4cd8
    R13: ffff88023af35140  R14: ffff88023b60c890  R15: 0000000000000000
    ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff  CS: 0010  SS: 0018
 #7 [ffff88023abd5b50] vmxnet3_do_poll at ffffffffa00f204a [vmxnet3]
 #8 [ffff88023abd5b80] vmxnet3_netpoll at ffffffffa00f209c [vmxnet3]
 #9 [ffff88023abd5ba0] netpoll_poll_dev at ffffffff81472bb7

The fix is to do as other drivers do, and have the poll controller call the top
half interrupt handler, which schedules a napi poll properly to recieve frames

Tested by myself, successfully.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
CC: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>
CC: "VMware, Inc." <pv-drivers@vmware.com>
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Shreyas N Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c

index 3be786faaaec222f0226b8285dde01e88b147e59..b7daa02ff0263ac3ec46106732954726c45d6952 100644 (file)
@@ -1761,12 +1761,18 @@ static void
 vmxnet3_netpoll(struct net_device *netdev)
 {
        struct vmxnet3_adapter *adapter = netdev_priv(netdev);
+       int i;
 
-       if (adapter->intr.mask_mode == VMXNET3_IMM_ACTIVE)
-               vmxnet3_disable_all_intrs(adapter);
-
-       vmxnet3_do_poll(adapter, adapter->rx_queue[0].rx_ring[0].size);
-       vmxnet3_enable_all_intrs(adapter);
+       switch (adapter->intr.type) {
+       case VMXNET3_IT_MSIX:
+               for (i = 0; i < adapter->num_rx_queues; i++)
+                       vmxnet3_msix_rx(0, &adapter->rx_queue[i]);
+               break;
+       case VMXNET3_IT_MSI:
+       default:
+               vmxnet3_intr(0, adapter->netdev);
+               break;
+       }
 
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER */