Patch "net/mlx5e: Disable preemption when doing TC statistics upcall" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    net/mlx5e: Disable preemption when doing TC statistics upcall

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     net-mlx5e-disable-preemption-when-doing-tc-statistics-upcall.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Thu Feb 23 21:13:05 CET 2017
From: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2017 11:21:31 +0200
Subject: net/mlx5e: Disable preemption when doing TC statistics upcall

From: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>


[ Upstream commit fed06ee89b78d3af32e235e0e89ad0d946fcb95d ]

When called by HW offloading drivers, the TC action (e.g
net/sched/act_mirred.c) code uses this_cpu logic, e.g

 _bstats_cpu_update(this_cpu_ptr(a->cpu_bstats), bytes, packets)

per the kernel documention, preemption should be disabled, add that.

Before the fix, when running with CONFIG_PREEMPT set, we get a

BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: tc/3793

asserion from the TC action (mirred) stats_update callback.

Fixes: aad7e08d39bd ('net/mlx5e: Hardware offloaded flower filter statistics support')
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c
@@ -567,10 +567,14 @@ int mlx5e_stats_flower(struct mlx5e_priv
 
 	mlx5_fc_query_cached(counter, &bytes, &packets, &lastuse);
 
+	preempt_disable();
+
 	tcf_exts_to_list(f->exts, &actions);
 	list_for_each_entry(a, &actions, list)
 		tcf_action_stats_update(a, bytes, packets, lastuse);
 
+	preempt_enable();
+
 	return 0;
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ogerlitz@mellanox.com are

queue-4.9/net-mlx5e-disable-preemption-when-doing-tc-statistics-upcall.patch