netdev - [PATCH] DM9000: fix interface hang under load

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:33:42 +0200
From:	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, jgarzik@...ox.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] DM9000: fix interface hang under load

When transferring data at full speed, the DM9000 network interface
sometimes stops sending/receiving data. Worse, ksoftirqd consumes
100% cpu and the net tx watchdog never triggers.
Fix by spin_lock_irqsave() in dm9000_start_xmit() to prevent the
interrupt handler from interfering.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
---
 Actually the comments ('Disable all interrupts, iow(db, DM9000_IMR, IMR_PAR) etc)
 give the impression that the interrupt handler cannot run during dm9000_start_xmit(),
 however this isn't correct (perhaps the chipset has some weird timing issues?).
 The interface lockup usually occurs between 30 and 360 seconds after starting transmitting
 data (netcat /dev/zero) at full speed; with this patch applied I haven't been able
 to reproduce hangs yet (ran for > 2h).
 FTR: This is a dm9000 on XScale-PXA255 rev 6 (ARMv5TE)/Compulab CM-x255, i.e.
 a module not supported by the vanilla kernel. Tested on (patched) 2.6.18.

 dm9000.c |   25 +++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/dm9000.c b/drivers/net/dm9000.c
index c3de81b..738aa59 100644
--- a/drivers/net/dm9000.c
+++ b/drivers/net/dm9000.c
@@ -700,6 +700,7 @@ dm9000_init_dm9000(struct net_device *dev)
 static int
 dm9000_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 {
+	unsigned long flags;
 	board_info_t *db = (board_info_t *) dev->priv;
 
 	PRINTK3("dm9000_start_xmit\n");
@@ -707,10 +708,7 @@ dm9000_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 	if (db->tx_pkt_cnt > 1)
 		return 1;
 
-	netif_stop_queue(dev);
-
-	/* Disable all interrupts */
-	iow(db, DM9000_IMR, IMR_PAR);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&db->lock, flags);
 
 	/* Move data to DM9000 TX RAM */
 	writeb(DM9000_MWCMD, db->io_addr);
@@ -718,12 +716,9 @@ dm9000_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 	(db->outblk)(db->io_data, skb->data, skb->len);
 	db->stats.tx_bytes += skb->len;
 
+	db->tx_pkt_cnt++;
 	/* TX control: First packet immediately send, second packet queue */
-	if (db->tx_pkt_cnt == 0) {
-
-		/* First Packet */
-		db->tx_pkt_cnt++;
-
+	if (db->tx_pkt_cnt == 1) {
 		/* Set TX length to DM9000 */
 		iow(db, DM9000_TXPLL, skb->len & 0xff);
 		iow(db, DM9000_TXPLH, (skb->len >> 8) & 0xff);
@@ -732,23 +727,17 @@ dm9000_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 		iow(db, DM9000_TCR, TCR_TXREQ);	/* Cleared after TX complete */
 
 		dev->trans_start = jiffies;	/* save the time stamp */
-
 	} else {
 		/* Second packet */
-		db->tx_pkt_cnt++;
 		db->queue_pkt_len = skb->len;
+		netif_stop_queue(dev);
 	}
 
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&db->lock, flags);
+
 	/* free this SKB */
 	dev_kfree_skb(skb);
 
-	/* Re-enable resource check */
-	if (db->tx_pkt_cnt == 1)
-		netif_wake_queue(dev);
-
-	/* Re-enable interrupt */
-	iow(db, DM9000_IMR, IMR_PAR | IMR_PTM | IMR_PRM);
-
 	return 0;
 }
 
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html