netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf] xsk: fix poll/POLLIN premature returns

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Date:   Wed, 25 Jul 2018 19:00:13 +0200
From:   Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:     Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@...il.com>,
        magnus.karlsson@...el.com, ast@...com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@...el.com>,
        qi.z.zhang@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf] xsk: fix poll/POLLIN premature returns

On 07/23/2018 11:43 AM, Björn Töpel wrote:
> From: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@...el.com>
> 
> Polling for the ingress queues relies on reading the producer/consumer
> pointers of the Rx queue.
> 
> Prior this commit, a cached consumer pointer could be used, instead of
> the actual consumer pointer and therefore report POLLIN prematurely.
> 
> This patch makes sure that the non-cached consumer pointer is used
> instead.
> 
> Reported-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang@...el.com>
> Tested-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang@...el.com>
> Fixes: c497176cb2e4 ("xsk: add Rx receive functions and poll support")
> Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@...el.com>

Applied thanks, Björn!