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    net: macb: Fix lost RX packet wakeup race in NAPI receive · 0bf476fc
    Robert Hancock authored
    There is an oddity in the way the RSR register flags propagate to the
    ISR register (and the actual interrupt output) on this hardware: it
    appears that RSR register bits only result in ISR being asserted if the
    interrupt was actually enabled at the time, so enabling interrupts with
    RSR bits already set doesn't trigger an interrupt to be raised. There
    was already a partial fix for this race in the macb_poll function where
    it checked for RSR bits being set and re-triggered NAPI receive.
    However, there was a still a race window between checking RSR and
    actually enabling interrupts, where a lost wakeup could happen. It's
    necessary to check again after enabling interrupts to see if RSR was set
    just prior to the interrupt being enabled, and re-trigger receive in that
    case.
    
    This issue was noticed in a point-to-point UDP request-response protocol
    which periodically saw timeouts or abnormally high response times due to
    received packets not being processed in a timely fashion. In many
    applications, more packets arriving, including TCP retransmissions, would
    cause the original packet to be processed, thus masking the issue.
    
    Fixes: 02f7a34f ("net: macb: Re-enable RX interrupt only when RX is done")
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Co-developed-by: default avatarScott McNutt <scott.mcnutt@siriusxm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarScott McNutt <scott.mcnutt@siriusxm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRobert Hancock <robert.hancock@calian.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarClaudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@microchip.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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