netdev - Re: [for-next V2 03/13] net/mlx5e: Wait for FPGA command responses with a timeout

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Wed, 7 Mar 2018 13:25:33 +0300
From:   Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>
To:     Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>,
        Aviad Yehezkel <aviadye@...lanox.com>,
        Matan Barak <matanb@...lanox.com>,
        Boris Pismenny <borisp@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [for-next V2 03/13] net/mlx5e: Wait for FPGA command responses
 with a timeout

On 07.03.2018 09:35, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> From: Aviad Yehezkel <aviadye@...lanox.com>
> 
> Generally, FPGA IPSec commands must always complete.
> We want to wait for one minute for them to complete gracefully also
> when killing a process.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aviad Yehezkel <aviadye@...lanox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fpga/ipsec.c | 9 ++++++---
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fpga/ipsec.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fpga/ipsec.c
> index 35d0e33381ca..95f9c5a8619b 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fpga/ipsec.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fpga/ipsec.c
> @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
>  #include "fpga/core.h"
>  
>  #define SBU_QP_QUEUE_SIZE 8
> +#define MLX5_FPGA_IPSEC_CMD_TIMEOUT_MSEC	(60 * 1000)
>  
>  enum mlx5_ipsec_response_syndrome {
>  	MLX5_IPSEC_RESPONSE_SUCCESS = 0,
> @@ -217,12 +218,14 @@ void *mlx5_fpga_ipsec_sa_cmd_exec(struct mlx5_core_dev *mdev,
>  int mlx5_fpga_ipsec_sa_cmd_wait(void *ctx)
>  {
>  	struct mlx5_ipsec_command_context *context = ctx;
> +	unsigned long timeout =
> +		msecs_to_jiffies(MLX5_FPGA_IPSEC_CMD_TIMEOUT_MSEC);
>  	int res;
>  
> -	res = wait_for_completion_killable(&context->complete);
> -	if (res) {
> +	res = wait_for_completion_timeout(&context->complete, timeout);

You had a possibility to kill the waiting task before the patch, but it gets lost after the patch.
Why not wait_for_completion_killable_timeout()?

> +	if (!res) {
>  		mlx5_fpga_warn(context->dev, "Failure waiting for IPSec command response\n");
> -		return -EINTR;
> +		return -ETIMEDOUT;
>  	}
>  
>  	if (context->status == MLX5_FPGA_IPSEC_SACMD_COMPLETE)

Thanks,
Kirill