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From: "Théo Lebrun" <theo.lebrun@bootlin.com>
To: "Théo Lebrun" <theo.lebrun@bootlin.com>,
	"Conor Dooley" <conor.dooley@microchip.com>,
	"Andrew Lunn" <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google.com>,
	"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
	"Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	"Richard Cochran" <richardcochran@gmail.com>,
	"Russell King" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Nicolas Ferre" <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>,
	"Claudiu Beznea" <claudiu.beznea@tuxon.dev>,
	"Paolo Valerio" <pvalerio@redhat.com>,
	"Nicolai Buchwitz" <nb@tipi-net.de>,
	"Vladimir Kondratiev" <vladimir.kondratiev@mobileye.com>,
	"Gregory CLEMENT" <gregory.clement@bootlin.com>,
	"Benoît Monin" <benoit.monin@bootlin.com>,
	"Tawfik Bayouk" <tawfik.bayouk@mobileye.com>,
	"Thomas Petazzoni" <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>,
	"Maxime Chevallier" <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next v3 13/15] net: macb: re-read ISR inside IRQ handler locked section
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:59:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260701-macb-context-v3-13-00268d5b1502@bootlin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260701-macb-context-v3-0-00268d5b1502@bootlin.com>

The IRQ handler reads ISR register into the `status` stack variable.
If empty, it early returns. Else, it grabs bp->lock and iterates on
the status bits.

If we tried grabbing bp->lock while already acquired, we might have
slept and the status might have been updated. Our most likely
competitor in this race (condition) is a swap operation, used in
change_mtu and set_ringparam. It is the only MACB codepath that resets
interrupts and HW inside a bp->lock critical section. Other codepaths
that clear HW IRQ status do so outside the bp->lock critical section.

We can only detect spurious interrupts before grabbing bp->lock if
MACB_CAPS_ISR_CLEAR_ON_WRITE. If we don't, then we only read ISR once.

Signed-off-by: Théo Lebrun <theo.lebrun@bootlin.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
index 7245c345c78f..5a32d5cb759e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
@@ -2184,13 +2184,21 @@ static irqreturn_t macb_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id)
 	struct net_device *netdev = bp->netdev;
 	u32 status;
 
-	status = queue_readl(queue, ISR);
-
-	if (unlikely(!status))
-		return IRQ_NONE;
+	/* detect spurious interrupts without grabbing bp->lock */
+	if (bp->caps & MACB_CAPS_ISR_CLEAR_ON_WRITE) {
+		status = queue_readl(queue, ISR);
+		if (unlikely(!status))
+			return IRQ_NONE;
+	}
 
 	spin_lock(&bp->lock);
 
+	status = queue_readl(queue, ISR);
+	if (unlikely(!status)) {
+		spin_unlock(&bp->lock);
+		return IRQ_NONE;
+	}
+
 	while (status) {
 		/* close possible race with dev_close */
 		if (unlikely(!netif_running(netdev))) {

-- 
2.55.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-07-01 15:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-01 15:59 [PATCH net-next v3 00/15] net: macb: implement context swapping Théo Lebrun
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 01/15] net: macb: drop "consistent" from alloc/free function names Théo Lebrun
2026-07-02 10:41   ` Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 02/15] net: macb: unify device pointer naming convention Théo Lebrun
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 03/15] net: macb: unify variable naming convention in at91ether functions Théo Lebrun
2026-07-02 10:42   ` Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 04/15] net: macb: unify queue index variable naming convention and types Théo Lebrun
2026-07-02 10:43   ` Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 05/15] net: macb: enforce reverse christmas tree (RCT) convention Théo Lebrun
2026-07-02 10:48   ` Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 06/15] net: macb: allocate tieoff descriptor once across device lifetime Théo Lebrun
2026-07-02 10:54   ` Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 07/15] net: macb: introduce macb_context struct for buffer management Théo Lebrun
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 08/15] net: macb: avoid macb_init_rx_buffer_size() modifying state Théo Lebrun
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 09/15] net: macb: make `struct macb` subset reachable from macb_context struct Théo Lebrun
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 10/15] net: macb: change caps helpers signatures Théo Lebrun
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 11/15] net: macb: change function signatures to take contexts Théo Lebrun
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 12/15] net: macb: introduce macb_context_alloc() helper Théo Lebrun
2026-07-01 15:59 ` Théo Lebrun [this message]
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 14/15] net: macb: use context swapping in .set_ringparam() Théo Lebrun
2026-07-02 10:37   ` Nicolai Buchwitz
2026-07-01 15:59 ` [PATCH net-next v3 15/15] net: macb: use context swapping in .ndo_change_mtu() Théo Lebrun

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