From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: 8390: Fix possible data races in __ei_get_stats Date: Mon, 7 May 2018 07:15:07 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20180507140809.28847-1-baijiaju1990@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Jia-Ju Bai , davem@davemloft.net, fthain@telegraphics.com.au, joe@perches.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20180507140809.28847-1-baijiaju1990@gmail.com> Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 05/07/2018 07:08 AM, Jia-Ju Bai wrote: > The write operations to "dev->stats" are protected by > the spinlock on line 862-864, but the read operations to > this data on line 858 and 867 are not protected by the spinlock. > Thus, there may exist data races for "dev->stats". > > To fix the data races, the read operations to "dev->stats" are > protected by the spinlock, and a local variable is used for return. > > Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai > --- > drivers/net/ethernet/8390/lib8390.c | 14 ++++++++++---- > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/lib8390.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/lib8390.c > index c9c55c9eab9f..198952247d30 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/lib8390.c > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/lib8390.c > @@ -852,19 +852,25 @@ static struct net_device_stats *__ei_get_stats(struct net_device *dev) > unsigned long ioaddr = dev->base_addr; > struct ei_device *ei_local = netdev_priv(dev); > unsigned long flags; > + struct net_device_stats *stats; > + > + spin_lock_irqsave(&ei_local->page_lock, flags); > > /* If the card is stopped, just return the present stats. */ > - if (!netif_running(dev)) > - return &dev->stats; > + if (!netif_running(dev)) { > + stats = &dev->stats; > + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ei_local->page_lock, flags); > + return stats; > + } > > - spin_lock_irqsave(&ei_local->page_lock, flags); > /* Read the counter registers, assuming we are in page 0. */ > dev->stats.rx_frame_errors += ei_inb_p(ioaddr + EN0_COUNTER0); > dev->stats.rx_crc_errors += ei_inb_p(ioaddr + EN0_COUNTER1); > dev->stats.rx_missed_errors += ei_inb_p(ioaddr + EN0_COUNTER2); > + stats = &dev->stats; > spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ei_local->page_lock, flags); > > - return &dev->stats; > + return stats; > } > > /* > dev->stats is not a pointer, it is an array embedded in the struct net_device So this patch is not needed, since dev->stats can not change.