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Date:   Mon, 17 Jun 2019 18:40:34 +0800
From:   李菲 <lifei.shirley@...edance.com>
To:     Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     zhengfeiran@...edance.com, duanxiongchun@...edance.com
Subject: Re: [External Email] Re: [PATCH] Fix tun: wake up waitqueues after
 IFF_UP is set

Hi all,

On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 5:32 PM 李菲 <lifei.shirley@...edance.com> wrote:
>
> Ok, thanks for detail suggestion! :)
>
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 4:16 PM Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2019/6/17 下午4:10, Jason Wang wrote:
>> >
>> > On 2019/6/17 下午3:33, Fei Li wrote:
>> >> Currently after setting tap0 link up, the tun code wakes tx/rx waited
>> >> queues up in tun_net_open() when .ndo_open() is called, however the
>> >> IFF_UP flag has not been set yet. If there's already a wait queue, it
>> >> would fail to transmit when checking the IFF_UP flag in tun_sendmsg().
>> >> Then the saving vhost_poll_start() will add the wq into wqh until it
>> >> is waken up again. Although this works when IFF_UP flag has been set
>> >> when tun_chr_poll detects; this is not true if IFF_UP flag has not
>> >> been set at that time. Sadly the latter case is a fatal error, as
>> >> the wq will never be waken up in future unless later manually
>> >> setting link up on purpose.
>> >>
>> >> Fix this by moving the wakeup process into the NETDEV_UP event
>> >> notifying process, this makes sure IFF_UP has been set before all
>> >> waited queues been waken up.
>>
>>
>> Btw, the title needs some tweak. E.g you need use "net" as prefix since
>> it's a fix for net.git and "Fix" could be removed like:
>>
>> [PATCH net] tun: wake up waitqueues after IFF_UP is set.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Fei Li <lifei.shirley@...edance.com>
>> >> ---
>> >>   drivers/net/tun.c | 17 +++++++++--------
>> >>   1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>> >>
>> >> diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
>> >> index c452d6d831dd..a3c9cab5a4d0 100644
>> >> --- a/drivers/net/tun.c
>> >> +++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
>> >> @@ -1015,17 +1015,9 @@ static void tun_net_uninit(struct net_device
>> >> *dev)
>> >>   static int tun_net_open(struct net_device *dev)
>> >>   {
>> >>       struct tun_struct *tun = netdev_priv(dev);
Will remove the above unused struct in next version.
Sorry for the negligence!

Have a nice day, thanks
Fei


>> >> -    int i;
>> >>         netif_tx_start_all_queues(dev);
>> >>   -    for (i = 0; i < tun->numqueues; i++) {
>> >> -        struct tun_file *tfile;
>> >> -
>> >> -        tfile = rtnl_dereference(tun->tfiles[i]);
>> >> - tfile->socket.sk->sk_write_space(tfile->socket.sk);
>> >> -    }
>> >> -
>> >>       return 0;
>> >>   }
>> >>   @@ -3634,6 +3626,7 @@ static int tun_device_event(struct
>> >> notifier_block *unused,
>> >>   {
>> >>       struct net_device *dev = netdev_notifier_info_to_dev(ptr);
>> >>       struct tun_struct *tun = netdev_priv(dev);
>> >> +    int i;
>> >>         if (dev->rtnl_link_ops != &tun_link_ops)
>> >>           return NOTIFY_DONE;
>> >> @@ -3643,6 +3636,14 @@ static int tun_device_event(struct
>> >> notifier_block *unused,
>> >>           if (tun_queue_resize(tun))
>> >>               return NOTIFY_BAD;
>> >>           break;
>> >> +    case NETDEV_UP:
>> >> +        for (i = 0; i < tun->numqueues; i++) {
>> >> +            struct tun_file *tfile;
>> >> +
>> >> +            tfile = rtnl_dereference(tun->tfiles[i]);
>> >> + tfile->socket.sk->sk_write_space(tfile->socket.sk);
>> >> +        }
>> >> +        break;
>> >>       default:
>> >>           break;
>> >>       }
>> >
>> >
>> > Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com)
>> >