From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
To: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Daniel Borkmann <borkmann@iogearbox.net>,
Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH] bpf: cpumap fix potential lost wake-up problem
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 22:34:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <59EE525D.6090903@iogearbox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <150878036830.4768.8540758939081367484.stgit@firesoul>
On 10/23/2017 07:39 PM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> As pointed out by Michael, commit 1c601d829ab0 ("bpf: cpumap xdp_buff
> to skb conversion and allocation") contains a classical example of the
> potential lost wake-up problem.
>
> We need to recheck the condition __ptr_ring_empty() after changing
> current->state to TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE, this avoids a race between
> wake_up_process() and schedule(). After this, a race with
> wake_up_process() will simply change the state to TASK_RUNNING, and
> the schedule() call not really put us to sleep.
>
> Fixes: 1c601d829ab0 ("bpf: cpumap xdp_buff to skb conversion and allocation")
> Reported-by: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
SOB missing ...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-23 20:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-23 17:39 [net-next PATCH] bpf: cpumap fix potential lost wake-up problem Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-10-23 20:34 ` Daniel Borkmann [this message]
2017-10-24 4:46 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-10-24 9:40 ` David Miller
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