netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] Fix locking in flush

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Date:	Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:34:42 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Fix locking in flush_backlog

Le mardi 23 mars 2010 à 16:39 -0700, Tom Herbert a écrit :
> Need to take spinlocks when dequeuing from input_pkt_queue in flush_backlog.
> Also, flush_backlog can now be called directly from netdev_run_todo.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Thanks Tom

> ---
> diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
> diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
> index a03aab4..5e3dc28 100644
> --- a/net/core/dev.c
> +++ b/net/core/dev.c
> @@ -2766,17 +2766,19 @@ int netif_receive_skb(struct sk_buff *skb)
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(netif_receive_skb);
>  
>  /* Network device is going away, flush any packets still pending  */
> -static void flush_backlog(void *arg)
> +static void flush_backlog(struct net_device *dev, int cpu)
>  {
> -	struct net_device *dev = arg;
> -	struct softnet_data *queue = &__get_cpu_var(softnet_data);
> +	struct softnet_data *queue = &per_cpu(softnet_data, cpu);
>  	struct sk_buff *skb, *tmp;
> +	unsigned long flags;
>  
> +	spin_lock_irqsave(&queue->input_pkt_queue.lock, flags);
>  	skb_queue_walk_safe(&queue->input_pkt_queue, skb, tmp)
>  		if (skb->dev == dev) {
>  			__skb_unlink(skb, &queue->input_pkt_queue);
>  			kfree_skb(skb);
>  		}
> +	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&queue->input_pkt_queue.lock, flags);
>  }
>  
>  static int napi_gro_complete(struct sk_buff *skb)
> @@ -5545,6 +5547,7 @@ void netdev_run_todo(void)
>  	while (!list_empty(&list)) {
>  		struct net_device *dev
>  			= list_first_entry(&list, struct net_device, todo_list);
> +		int i;
>  		list_del(&dev->todo_list);
>  
>  		if (unlikely(dev->reg_state != NETREG_UNREGISTERING)) {
> @@ -5556,7 +5559,8 @@ void netdev_run_todo(void)
>  
>  		dev->reg_state = NETREG_UNREGISTERED;
>  
> -		on_each_cpu(flush_backlog, dev, 1);
> +		for_each_online_cpu(i)
> +			flush_backlog(dev, i);
>  
>  		netdev_wait_allrefs(dev);
>  

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