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* [PATCH] sky2: initialize napi before registering device
@ 2014-01-25 10:34 Stanislaw Gruszka
  2014-01-26  1:01 ` Stephen Hemminger
  2014-01-28  0:40 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Stanislaw Gruszka @ 2014-01-25 10:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev; +Cc: Mirko Lindner, Stephen Hemminger

There is race condition when call netif_napi_add() after
register_netdevice(), as ->open() can be called without napi initialized
and trigger BUG_ON() on napi_enable(), like on below messages:

[    9.699863] sky2: driver version 1.30
[    9.699960] sky2 0000:02:00.0: Yukon-2 EC Ultra chip revision 2
[    9.700020] sky2 0000:02:00.0: irq 45 for MSI/MSI-X
[    9.700498] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[    9.703391] kernel BUG at include/linux/netdevice.h:501!
[    9.703391] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
<snip>
[    9.830018] Call Trace:
[    9.830018]  [<fa996169>] sky2_open+0x309/0x360 [sky2]
[    9.830018]  [<c1007210>] ? via_no_dac+0x40/0x40
[    9.830018]  [<c1007210>] ? via_no_dac+0x40/0x40
[    9.830018]  [<c135ed4b>] __dev_open+0x9b/0x120
[    9.830018]  [<c1431cbe>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_bh+0x1e/0x20
[    9.830018]  [<c135efd9>] __dev_change_flags+0x89/0x150
[    9.830018]  [<c135f148>] dev_change_flags+0x18/0x50
[    9.830018]  [<c13bb8e0>] devinet_ioctl+0x5d0/0x6e0
[    9.830018]  [<c13bcced>] inet_ioctl+0x6d/0xa0

To fix the problem patch changes the order of initialization.

Bug report:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67151

Reported-and-tested-by: ebrahim.azarisooreh@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c
index 43aa7acd..2564eda 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c
@@ -5020,6 +5020,8 @@ static int sky2_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
 		}
  	}
 
+	netif_napi_add(dev, &hw->napi, sky2_poll, NAPI_WEIGHT);
+
 	err = register_netdev(dev);
 	if (err) {
 		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "cannot register net device\n");
@@ -5028,8 +5030,6 @@ static int sky2_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
 
 	netif_carrier_off(dev);
 
-	netif_napi_add(dev, &hw->napi, sky2_poll, NAPI_WEIGHT);
-
 	sky2_show_addr(dev);
 
 	if (hw->ports > 1) {
-- 
1.7.4.4

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