linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next] BNX2: fix a Null Pointer for stats

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Date:	Wed, 23 Sep 2015 15:31:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	wangweidong1@...wei.com
Cc:	sony.chacko@...gic.com, Dept-HSGLinuxNICDev@...gic.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	rui.xiang@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] BNX2: fix a Null Pointer for stats_blk

From: Weidong Wang <wangweidong1@...wei.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 20:42:40 +0800

> @@ -880,6 +882,7 @@ bnx2_alloc_mem(struct bnx2 *bp)
>  		}
>  	}
> 
> +	spin_lock(&bp->stats64_lock);
>  	bp->stats_blk = status_blk + status_blk_size;
> 
>  	bp->stats_blk_mapping = bp->status_blk_mapping + status_blk_size;
> @@ -894,20 +897,23 @@ bnx2_alloc_mem(struct bnx2 *bp)
>  						&bp->ctx_blk_mapping[i],
>  						GFP_KERNEL);
>  			if (bp->ctx_blk[i] == NULL)
> -				goto alloc_mem_err;
> +				goto free_stats64_lock;
>  		}
>  	}
> 
>  	err = bnx2_alloc_rx_mem(bp);
>  	if (err)
> -		goto alloc_mem_err;
> +		goto free_stats64_lock;

You're holding a spinlock while doing GFP_KERNEL allocations.

Second of all, taking a spinlock in get_stats64() defeats the whole
intention of making statistics acquisition as fast and as SMP scalable
as possible.
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