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* [patch for 2.6.25? 3/3] skge napi->poll() locking bug
@ 2008-03-27  7:45 akpm
  2008-03-27 10:03 ` Marin Mitov
  2008-03-27 12:23 ` Jeff Garzik
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: akpm @ 2008-03-27  7:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: jeff; +Cc: netdev, akpm, mitov, davem

From: Marin Mitov <mitov@issp.bas.bg>

According to: Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt:

<cite>
napi->poll:
..........
	Context: softirq
	         will be called with interrupts disabled by netconsole.
</cite>

napi->poll() could be called either with interrupts enabled
(in softirq context) or disabled (by netconsole), so the irq flag
should be preserved.

Inspired by Ingo's resent forcedeth patch :-)

Signed-off-by: Marin Mitov <mitov@issp.bas.bg>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 drivers/net/skge.c |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN drivers/net/skge.c~skge-napi-poll-locking-bug drivers/net/skge.c
--- a/drivers/net/skge.c~skge-napi-poll-locking-bug
+++ a/drivers/net/skge.c
@@ -3199,12 +3199,14 @@ static int skge_poll(struct napi_struct 
 	skge_write8(hw, Q_ADDR(rxqaddr[skge->port], Q_CSR), CSR_START);
 
 	if (work_done < to_do) {
-		spin_lock_irq(&hw->hw_lock);
+		unsigned long flags;
+
+		spin_lock_irqsave(&hw->hw_lock, flags);
 		__netif_rx_complete(dev, napi);
 		hw->intr_mask |= napimask[skge->port];
 		skge_write32(hw, B0_IMSK, hw->intr_mask);
 		skge_read32(hw, B0_IMSK);
-		spin_unlock_irq(&hw->hw_lock);
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hw->hw_lock, flags);
 	}
 
 	return work_done;
_

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2008-03-27 17:11   ` Andrew Morton
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