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SubjectRe: [PATCH] drivers: net: xgene: fix: Out of order descriptor bytes read
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On Mon, 2015-01-26 at 13:12 -0800, Iyappan Subramanian wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 12:03 -0800, Iyappan Subramanian wrote:
> >> This patch fixes the following kernel crash,
> >>
> >> WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 0 at net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:3079 tcp_clean_rtx_queue+0x658/0x80c()
> >> Call trace:
> >
> >>
> >> Software writes poison data into the descriptor bytes[15:8] and upon
> >> receiving the interrupt, if those bytes are overwritten by the hardware with
> >> the valid data, software also reads bytes[7:0] and executes receive/tx
> >> completion logic.
> >>
> >> If the CPU executes the above two reads in out of order fashion, then the
> >> bytes[7:0] will have older data and causing the kernel panic. We have to
> >> force the order of the reads and thus this patch introduces read memory
> >> barrier between these reads.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Iyappan Subramanian <isubramanian@apm.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Keyur Chudgar <kchudgar@apm.com>
> >> Tested-by: Mark Langsdorf <mlangsdo@redhat.com>
> >> ---
> >> drivers/net/ethernet/apm/xgene/xgene_enet_main.c | 2 ++
> >> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/apm/xgene/xgene_enet_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/apm/xgene/xgene_enet_main.c
> >> index 83a5028..3622cdb 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/apm/xgene/xgene_enet_main.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/apm/xgene/xgene_enet_main.c
> >> @@ -369,6 +369,8 @@ static int xgene_enet_process_ring(struct xgene_enet_desc_ring *ring,
> >> if (unlikely(xgene_enet_is_desc_slot_empty(raw_desc)))
> >> break;
> >>
> >> + /* read fpqnum field after dataaddr field */
> >> + smp_rmb();
> >> if (is_rx_desc(raw_desc))
> >> ret = xgene_enet_rx_frame(ring, raw_desc);
> >> else
> >
> > Reading your changelog, it looks like you need a plain rmb() here.
>
> rmb() translates into dsb, which in arm64 serializes everything
> including instructions and thus expensive compared to dmb.
>
> Do you see any issue with smp_rmb() (which translates into dmb) ?

What happens if you compile a kernel with CONFIG_SMP=n ?


Most drivers in drivers/net use rmb() in this case, not smp_rmb() or
barrier()





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