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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: wangbiao <biao.wang@intel.com>
Cc: oneukum@suse.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl,
	rusty@rustcorp.com.au, william.douglas@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usbnet: fix race condition caused spinlock bad magic issue
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 09:23:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131111082330.GA12405@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1384139315.2179.9.camel@wangbiao>


* wangbiao <biao.wang@intel.com> wrote:

> @@ -1448,8 +1448,10 @@ static void usbnet_bh (unsigned long param)
>  
>  	// waiting for all pending urbs to complete?
>  	if (dev->wait) {
> +		wait_queue_head_t *wait_d = dev->wait;
>  		if ((dev->txq.qlen + dev->rxq.qlen + dev->done.qlen) == 0) {
> -			wake_up (dev->wait);
> +			if (wait_d)
> +				wake_up(wait_d);
>  		}
>  
>  	// or are we maybe short a few urbs?

1)

Nit: the scope of 'wait_d' is unnecessarily broad, it could be moved to 
the block that uses it.

2)

Also, the changelog mentions that dev->wait can race - it would be nice to 
add to the changelog what exact synchronization mechanism protects 
usbnet_terminate_urbs() and usbnet_bh() from seeing/modifying that value 
at once - as the code was clearly written without such interaction in 
mind.

> @@ -1602,6 +1604,7 @@ usbnet_probe (struct usb_interface *udev, const struct usb_device_id *prod)
>  	init_timer (&dev->delay);
>  	mutex_init (&dev->phy_mutex);
>  	mutex_init(&dev->interrupt_mutex);
> +	init_waitqueue_head(&unlink_wakeup);

3)

Can that runtime initialization be avoided by using 
DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD()?

Thanks,

	Ingo

      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-11-11  8:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-11  3:08 [PATCH] usbnet: fix race condition caused spinlock bad magic issue wangbiao
2013-11-11  7:44 ` Oliver Neukum
2013-11-11  8:23 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]

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