Patch "net/mlx4_en: fix overflow in mlx4_en_init_timestamp()" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

Patch "net/mlx4_en: fix overflow in mlx4_en_init_timestamp()" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[gregkh]

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

    net/mlx4_en: fix overflow in mlx4_en_init_timestamp()

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-mlx4_en-fix-overflow-in-mlx4_en_init_timestamp.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 Oct 19 15:04:02 CEST 2017
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 15:22:43 -0800
Subject: net/mlx4_en: fix overflow in mlx4_en_init_timestamp()

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>


[ Upstream commit 47d3a07528ecbbccf53bc4390d70b4e3d1c04fcf ]

The cited commit makes a great job of finding optimal shift/multiplier
values assuming a 10 seconds wrap around, but forgot to change the
overflow_period computation.

It overflows in cyclecounter_cyc2ns(), and the final result is 804 ms,
which is silly.

Lets simply use 5 seconds, no need to recompute this, given how it is
supposed to work.

Later, we will use a timer instead of a work queue, since the new RX
allocation schem will no longer need mlx4_en_recover_from_oom() and the
service_task firing every 250 ms.

Fixes: 31c128b66e5b ("net/mlx4_en: Choose time-stamping shift value according to HW frequency")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>
Cc: Eugenia Emantayev <eugenia@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_clock.c |   18 ++++++++----------
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h  |    1 -
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_clock.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_clock.c
@@ -88,10 +88,17 @@ void mlx4_en_remove_timestamp(struct mlx
 	}
 }
 
+#define MLX4_EN_WRAP_AROUND_SEC	10UL
+/* By scheduling the overflow check every 5 seconds, we have a reasonably
+ * good chance we wont miss a wrap around.
+ * TOTO: Use a timer instead of a work queue to increase the guarantee.
+ */
+#define MLX4_EN_OVERFLOW_PERIOD (MLX4_EN_WRAP_AROUND_SEC * HZ / 2)
+
 void mlx4_en_ptp_overflow_check(struct mlx4_en_dev *mdev)
 {
 	bool timeout = time_is_before_jiffies(mdev->last_overflow_check +
-					      mdev->overflow_period);
+					      MLX4_EN_OVERFLOW_PERIOD);
 	unsigned long flags;
 
 	if (timeout) {
@@ -236,7 +243,6 @@ static const struct ptp_clock_info mlx4_
 	.enable		= mlx4_en_phc_enable,
 };
 
-#define MLX4_EN_WRAP_AROUND_SEC	10ULL
 
 /* This function calculates the max shift that enables the user range
  * of MLX4_EN_WRAP_AROUND_SEC values in the cycles register.
@@ -261,7 +267,6 @@ void mlx4_en_init_timestamp(struct mlx4_
 {
 	struct mlx4_dev *dev = mdev->dev;
 	unsigned long flags;
-	u64 ns, zero = 0;
 
 	/* mlx4_en_init_timestamp is called for each netdev.
 	 * mdev->ptp_clock is common for all ports, skip initialization if
@@ -285,13 +290,6 @@ void mlx4_en_init_timestamp(struct mlx4_
 			 ktime_to_ns(ktime_get_real()));
 	write_unlock_irqrestore(&mdev->clock_lock, flags);
 
-	/* Calculate period in seconds to call the overflow watchdog - to make
-	 * sure counter is checked at least once every wrap around.
-	 */
-	ns = cyclecounter_cyc2ns(&mdev->cycles, mdev->cycles.mask, zero, &zero);
-	do_div(ns, NSEC_PER_SEC / 2 / HZ);
-	mdev->overflow_period = ns;
-
 	/* Configure the PHC */
 	mdev->ptp_clock_info = mlx4_en_ptp_clock_info;
 	snprintf(mdev->ptp_clock_info.name, 16, "mlx4 ptp");
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h
@@ -419,7 +419,6 @@ struct mlx4_en_dev {
 	struct cyclecounter	cycles;
 	struct timecounter	clock;
 	unsigned long		last_overflow_check;
-	unsigned long		overflow_period;
 	struct ptp_clock	*ptp_clock;
 	struct ptp_clock_info	ptp_clock_info;
 	struct notifier_block	nb;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from edumazet@google.com are

queue-4.9/net-mlx4_en-fix-overflow-in-mlx4_en_init_timestamp.patch