[PATCH 5.4 359/434] net: wireless: intel: iwlwifi: fix GRO_NORMAL packet stalling

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-12-29T18:01:49Z

From: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@dlink.ru>

[ Upstream commit b167191e2a851cb2e4c6ef8b91c83ff73ef41872 ]

Commit 6570bc79c0df ("net: core: use listified Rx for GRO_NORMAL in
napi_gro_receive()") has applied batched GRO_NORMAL packets processing
to all napi_gro_receive() users, including mac80211-based drivers.

However, this change has led to a regression in iwlwifi driver [1][2] as
it is required for NAPI users to call napi_complete_done() or
napi_complete() and the end of every polling iteration, whilst iwlwifi
doesn't use NAPI scheduling at all and just calls napi_gro_flush().
In that particular case, packets which have not been already flushed
from napi->rx_list stall in it until at least next Rx cycle.

Fix this by adding a manual flushing of the list to iwlwifi driver right
before napi_gro_flush() call to mimic napi_complete() logics.

I prefer to open-code gro_normal_list() rather than exporting it for 2
reasons:
* to prevent from using it and napi_gro_flush() in any new drivers,
as it is the *really* bad way to use NAPI that should be avoided;
* to keep gro_normal_list() static and don't lose any CC optimizations.

I also don't add the "Fixes:" tag as the mentioned commit was only a
trigger that only exposed an improper usage of NAPI in this particular
driver.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/PSXP216MB04388962C411CD0B17A86F47804A0@PSXP216MB0438.KORP216.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
[2] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205647

Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@dlink.ru>
Acked-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Reported-by: Nicholas Johnson <nicholas.johnson-opensource@outlook.com.au>
Tested-by: Nicholas Johnson <nicholas.johnson-opensource@outlook.com.au>
Reviewed-by: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/rx.c | 13 +++++++++++--
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/rx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/rx.c
index 19dd075f2f63..041dd75ac72b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/rx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/rx.c
@@ -1429,6 +1429,7 @@ out_err:
static void iwl_pcie_rx_handle(struct iwl_trans *trans, int queue)
{
struct iwl_trans_pcie *trans_pcie = IWL_TRANS_GET_PCIE_TRANS(trans);
+ struct napi_struct *napi;
struct iwl_rxq *rxq;
u32 r, i, count = 0;
bool emergency = false;
@@ -1534,8 +1535,16 @@ out:
if (unlikely(emergency && count))
iwl_pcie_rxq_alloc_rbs(trans, GFP_ATOMIC, rxq);

- if (rxq->napi.poll)
- napi_gro_flush(&rxq->napi, false);
+ napi = &rxq->napi;
+ if (napi->poll) {
+ if (napi->rx_count) {
+ netif_receive_skb_list(&napi->rx_list);
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&napi->rx_list);
+ napi->rx_count = 0;
+ }
+
+ napi_gro_flush(napi, false);
+ }

iwl_pcie_rxq_restock(trans, rxq);
}
--
2.20.1