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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Bhargava Marreddy <bhargava.marreddy@broadcom.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com,
	andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, horms@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, michael.chan@broadcom.com,
	pavan.chebbi@broadcom.com, vsrama-krishna.nemani@broadcom.com,
	vikas.gupta@broadcom.com,
	Ajit Kumar Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/7] bng_en: add per-PF workqueue, timer, and slow-path task
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:32:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260224183253.23143628@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260223163641.755200-2-bhargava.marreddy@broadcom.com>

On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:06:35 +0530 Bhargava Marreddy wrote:
> +	if (atomic_read(&bn->intr_sem) != 0)
> +		goto bnge_restart_timer;
> +
> +	/* Periodic work added by later patches */
> +
> +bnge_restart_timer:
> +	mod_timer(&bn->timer, jiffies + bn->current_interval);

This intr_sem thing looks highly questionable.

It provides no synchronization guarantee since the state of intr_sem 
may change immediately after the read. Please use normal locking
primitives and/or cancel the timer _sync() if you want to make sure
it's not running.

  reply	other threads:[~2026-02-25  2:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-02-23 16:36 [PATCH net-next 0/7] bng_en: add link management and statistics support Bhargava Marreddy
2026-02-23 16:36 ` [PATCH net-next 1/7] bng_en: add per-PF workqueue, timer, and slow-path task Bhargava Marreddy
2026-02-25  2:32   ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2026-02-26 14:05     ` Bhargava Chenna Marreddy
2026-02-23 16:36 ` [PATCH net-next 2/7] bng_en: query PHY capabilities and report link status Bhargava Marreddy
2026-02-25  2:35   ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-02-26 14:24     ` Bhargava Chenna Marreddy
2026-02-23 16:36 ` [PATCH net-next 3/7] bng_en: add ethtool link settings, get_link, and nway_reset Bhargava Marreddy
2026-02-23 19:44   ` Andrew Lunn
2026-02-24 19:19     ` Bhargava Chenna Marreddy
2026-02-24  0:12   ` [net-next,3/7] " Jakub Kicinski
2026-02-25 18:11     ` Bhargava Chenna Marreddy
2026-02-23 16:36 ` [PATCH net-next 4/7] bng_en: add support for link async events Bhargava Marreddy
2026-02-23 16:36 ` [PATCH net-next 5/7] bng_en: add initial support for ethtool stats display Bhargava Marreddy
2026-02-23 19:52   ` Andrew Lunn
2026-02-24 19:50     ` Bhargava Chenna Marreddy
2026-02-24 21:13       ` Andrew Lunn
2026-02-26 16:28         ` Bhargava Chenna Marreddy
2026-02-23 16:36 ` [PATCH net-next 6/7] bng_en: periodically fetch and accumulate hardware statistics Bhargava Marreddy
2026-02-23 16:36 ` [PATCH net-next 7/7] bng_en: implement ndo_get_stats64 Bhargava Marreddy

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