netdev - [PATCH net-next 01/11] s390/qeth: fix race in used-buffer accounting

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Message-Id: <20180719104358.79696-2-jwi@linux.ibm.com>
Date:   Thu, 19 Jul 2018 12:43:48 +0200
From:   Julian Wiedmann <jwi@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-s390@...r.kernel.org>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        Stefan Raspl <raspl@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Ursula Braun <ubraun@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Julian Wiedmann <jwi@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 01/11] s390/qeth: fix race in used-buffer accounting

By updating q->used_buffers only _after_ do_QDIO() has completed, there
is a potential race against the buffer's TX completion. In the unlikely
case that the TX completion path wins, qeth_qdio_output_handler() would
decrement the counter before qeth_flush_buffers() even incremented it.

Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@...ux.ibm.com>
---
 drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c
index d80972b9bfc7..f7ddd6455638 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c
@@ -3506,13 +3506,14 @@ static void qeth_flush_buffers(struct qeth_qdio_out_q *queue, int index,
 	qdio_flags = QDIO_FLAG_SYNC_OUTPUT;
 	if (atomic_read(&queue->set_pci_flags_count))
 		qdio_flags |= QDIO_FLAG_PCI_OUT;
+	atomic_add(count, &queue->used_buffers);
+
 	rc = do_QDIO(CARD_DDEV(queue->card), qdio_flags,
 		     queue->queue_no, index, count);
 	if (queue->card->options.performance_stats)
 		queue->card->perf_stats.outbound_do_qdio_time +=
 			qeth_get_micros() -
 			queue->card->perf_stats.outbound_do_qdio_start_time;
-	atomic_add(count, &queue->used_buffers);
 	if (rc) {
 		queue->card->stats.tx_errors += count;
 		/* ignore temporary SIGA errors without busy condition */
-- 
2.16.4