Re: [net v3] net: wwan: t7xx: Fix napi rx poll issue

Larysa Zaremba
2025-06-04T12:19:43Z

On Wed, Jun 04, 2025 at 06:19:53PM +0800, Jinjian Song wrote:
> From: Larysa Zaremba <larysa.zaremba@intel.com>
>
> >> Fixes: 5545b7b9f294 ("net: wwan: t7xx: Add NAPI support")
> >> Signed-off-by: Jinjian Song <jinjian.song@fibocom.com>
> >> ---
> >> v3:
> >> * Only Use READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE when the lock protecting ctlb->ccmni_inst
> >> is not held.
> >
> >What do you mean by "lock protecting ctlb->ccmni_inst"? Please specify.
>
> Hi Larysa,
>
> This description might have been a bit simplified. This process is as follow:
>
> In patch v1, I directly set ctlb->ccmni_inst. This may be not safe, as the NAPI
> processing and the driver's internal interface might not be synchronized. Therefoe,
> following Jakub's suggestion, I add READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE in all places where this
> pointer is accessed.
>
> In patch v2, Paolo suggested using READ_ONCE in places that are not protected by locks.
> Some interfaces are protected by synchronization mechanisms, so it's unnecesssary to add them there.
> Therefore, I removed READ_ONCE from the interfaces.
>

I have seen the discussion for previous version, I am asking you for the symbol
name/names for the locks that make READ_ONCE in the removed places not needed.

> >> @@ -441,7 +442,7 @@ static void t7xx_ccmni_recv_skb(struct t7xx_ccmni_ctrl *ccmni_ctlb, struct sk_bu
> >>
> >> static void t7xx_ccmni_queue_tx_irq_notify(struct t7xx_ccmni_ctrl *ctlb, int qno)
> >> {
> >> - struct t7xx_ccmni *ccmni = ctlb->ccmni_inst[0];
> >> + struct t7xx_ccmni *ccmni = READ_ONCE(ctlb->ccmni_inst[0]);
> >> struct netdev_queue *net_queue;
> >>
> >
> >You do not seem to check if ccmni is NULL here, so given ctlb->ccmni_inst[0] is
> >not being hot-swapped, I guess that there are some guarantees of it not being
> >NULL at this moment, so I would drop READ_ONCE here.
>
> This ctlb->ccmni_inst[0] is checked in the upper-level interface:
> static void t7xx_ccmni_queue_state_notify([...]) {
> [...]
> if (!READ_ONCE(ctlb->ccmni_inst[0])) {
> return;
> }
>
> if (state == DMPAIF_TXQ_STATE_IRQ)
> t7xx_ccmni_queue_tx_irq_notify(ctlb, qno);
> else if (state == DMPAIF_TXQ_STATE_FULL)
> t7xx_ccmni_queue_tx_full_notify(ctlb, qno);
> }
>
> Since this is part of the driver's internal logic for handing queue events, would it be
> safer to add READ_ONCE here as well?
>

Well, I am not 100% sure. What would make the code easier to reason about in
terms of READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE is if you replaced struct t7xx_ccmni_ctrl *ctlb
argument in t7xx_ccmni_queue_tx_irq_notify() and
t7xx_ccmni_queue_tx_full_notify() with ctlb->ccmni_inst[0], the code would look
like this:

struct t7xx_ccmni *ccmni =
READ_ONCE(t7xx_dev->ccmni_ctlb->ccmni_inst[0]);

if (!ccmni) {
dev_warn(&t7xx_dev->pdev->dev, "No netdev registered yet\n");
return;
}

if (state == DMPAIF_TXQ_STATE_IRQ)
t7xx_ccmni_queue_tx_irq_notify(ccmni, qno);
else if (state == DMPAIF_TXQ_STATE_FULL)
t7xx_ccmni_queue_tx_full_notify(ccmni, qno);

This way atomic reads in notifiers would be dependent on a single READ_ONCE,
which should prevent nasty reordering, as far as I am concerned.

The above holds if you think you do not need to check for NULL in the notifiers,
but is such case I would rather consider proper locking or RCU.

> >> @@ -453,7 +454,7 @@ static void t7xx_ccmni_queue_tx_irq_notify(struct t7xx_ccmni_ctrl *ctlb, int qno
> >>
> >> static void t7xx_ccmni_queue_tx_full_notify(struct t7xx_ccmni_ctrl *ctlb, int qno)
> >> {
> >> - struct t7xx_ccmni *ccmni = ctlb->ccmni_inst[0];
> >> + struct t7xx_ccmni *ccmni = READ_ONCE(ctlb->ccmni_inst[0]);
> >> struct netdev_queue *net_queue;
> >>
> >
> >Same as above, either READ_ONCE is not needed or NULL check is required.
>
> Yes, This function in the same upper-level interface.
>
> > if (atomic_read(&ccmni->usage) > 0) {
> > @@ -471,7 +472,7 @@ static void t7xx_ccmni_queue_state_notify(struct t7xx_pci_dev *t7xx_dev,
> > if (ctlb->md_sta != MD_STATE_READY)
> > return;
> >
> > - if (!ctlb->ccmni_inst[0]) {
> > + if (!READ_ONCE(ctlb->ccmni_inst[0])) {
> > dev_warn(&t7xx_dev->pdev->dev, "No netdev registered yet\n");
> > return;
> > }
> > --
> > 2.34.1
> >
> >
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jinjian,
> Best Regards.