Re: [PATCH] via-rhine: Fix tx_timeout handling

[Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>]

Am 21.07.2013 18:18, schrieb Ben Hutchings:
> On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 23:30 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> rhine_reset_task() misses to call netif_stop_queue(),
>> this can lead to a crash if work is still scheduled while
>> we're resetting the tx queue.
>>
>> Fixes:
>> [   93.591707] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000004c
>> [   93.595514] IP: [<c119d10d>] rhine_napipoll+0x491/0x6e
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
>> ---
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/via/via-rhine.c | 1 +
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/via/via-rhine.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/via/via-rhine.c
>> index b75eb9e..57e1b40 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/via/via-rhine.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/via/via-rhine.c
>> @@ -1615,6 +1615,7 @@ static void rhine_reset_task(struct work_struct *work)
>>  		goto out_unlock;
>>  
>>  	napi_disable(&rp->napi);
>> +	netif_stop_queue(dev);
> 
> This is not really fixing the bug because there is no synchronisation
> with the TX scheduler.  You can call netif_tx_disable() instead to do
> that.

I guess other drivers suffer from that too.
A quick grep showed that not many drivers are using netif_tx_disable().

> (I also think that it is preferable to use
> netif_device_{detach,attach}() to stop the queue during reconfiguration,
> as this is independent of TX completions and the watchdog.)

So the correct down sequence is napi_disable() -> netif_tx_disable() -> netif_device_detach()?

Thanks,
//richard