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Message-ID: <20230510191428.75efff66@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 19:14:28 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, pabeni@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, Muhammad Husaini Zulkifli
 <muhammad.husaini.zulkifli@...el.com>, sasha.neftin@...el.com, Naama Meir
 <naamax.meir@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/3] igc: Clean the TX buffer and TX descriptor ring

On Tue,  9 May 2023 10:09:33 -0700 Tony Nguyen wrote:
> There could be a race condition during link down where interrupt
> being generated and igc_clean_tx_irq() been called to perform the
> TX completion. Properly clear the TX buffer and TX descriptor ring
> to avoid those case.

> +	/* Zero out the buffer ring */
> +	memset(tx_ring->tx_buffer_info, 0,
> +	       sizeof(*tx_ring->tx_buffer_info) * tx_ring->count);
> +
> +	/* Zero out the descriptor ring */
> +	memset(tx_ring->desc, 0, tx_ring->size);

Just from the diff and the commit description this does not seem
obviously correct. Race condition means the two functions can run 
at the same time, and memset() is not atomic.
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