netdev - Re: Several races in "usbnet" module (kernel 4.1.x)

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Date:	Mon, 27 Jul 2015 12:00:39 +0200
From:	Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>
To:	Eugene Shatokhin <eugene.shatokhin@...alab.ru>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Several races in "usbnet" module (kernel 4.1.x)

On Fri, 2015-07-24 at 17:41 +0300, Eugene Shatokhin wrote:
> 23.07.2015 12:15, Oliver Neukum пишет:

>  From what I see now in Documentation/atomic_ops.txt, stores to the 
> properly aligned memory locations are in fact atomic.

They are, but again only with respect to each other.

> So, I think, the situation you described above cannot happen for 
> dev->flags, which is good. No need to address that in the patch. The 
> race might be harmless after all.
> 
> If I understand the code correctly now, dev->flags is set to 0 in 
> usbnet_stop() so that the worker function (usbnet_deferred_kevent) would

Yes, particularly not reschedule itself.

> do nothing, should it start later. If so, how about adding memory 
> barriers for all CPUs to see dev->flags is 0 before other things?

Taking a lock, as del_timer_sync() does, implies a memory barrier,
as does a work.

	Regards
		Oliver


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