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vmxnet3: fix netpoll race condition 

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>
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Neil Horman 2014-03-10 06:55:55 -04:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent dd38743b4c
commit d25f06ea46
1 changed files with 11 additions and 5 deletions
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drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c
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@ -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 */