From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>,
Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH] net: fix race in process_backlog
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:44:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1191426293.5599.27.camel@lappy> (raw)
Subject: net: fix race in process_backlog
The recent NAPI rework (4fa57c9ea9f36f9ca852f3a88ca5d2f1aebbc960)
introduced a race between netif_rx() and process_backlog() which
resulted in softirq processing to drop dead.
netif_rx() process_backlog()
irq_disable();
skb = __skb_dequeue();
irq_enable();
irq_disable();
__skb_queue_tail();
napi_schedule();
irq_enable();
if (!skb)
napi_complete(); <-- oops!
we cleared the napi bit, even though there is data to process.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
net/core/dev.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Index: linux-2.6/net/core/dev.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/net/core/dev.c
+++ linux-2.6/net/core/dev.c
@@ -2095,11 +2095,11 @@ static int process_backlog(struct napi_s
local_irq_disable();
skb = __skb_dequeue(&queue->input_pkt_queue);
- local_irq_enable();
if (!skb) {
- napi_complete(napi);
+ __napi_complete(napi);
break;
}
+ local_irq_enable();
dev = skb->dev;
next reply other threads:[~2007-10-03 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-03 15:44 Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2007-10-03 16:15 ` [PATCH] net: fix race in process_backlog Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-03 21:58 ` David Miller
2007-10-03 22:05 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-03 23:39 ` David Miller
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