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    igc: Fix race condition in PTP tx code · 9c50e2b1
    Vinicius Costa Gomes authored
    Currently, the igc driver supports timestamping only one tx packet at a
    time. During the transmission flow, the skb that requires hardware
    timestamping is saved in adapter->ptp_tx_skb. Once hardware has the
    timestamp, an interrupt is delivered, and adapter->ptp_tx_work is
    scheduled. In igc_ptp_tx_work(), we read the timestamp register, update
    adapter->ptp_tx_skb, and notify the network stack.
    
    While the thread executing the transmission flow (the user process
    running in kernel mode) and the thread executing ptp_tx_work don't
    access adapter->ptp_tx_skb concurrently, there are two other places
    where adapter->ptp_tx_skb is accessed: igc_ptp_tx_hang() and
    igc_ptp_suspend().
    
    igc_ptp_tx_hang() is executed by the adapter->watchdog_task worker
    thread which runs periodically so it is possible we have two threads
    accessing ptp_tx_skb at the same time. Consider the following scenario:
    right after __IGC_PTP_TX_IN_PROGRESS is set in igc_xmit_frame_ring(),
    igc_ptp_tx_hang() is executed. Since adapter->ptp_tx_start hasn't been
    written yet, this is considered a timeout and adapter->ptp_tx_skb is
    cleaned up.
    
    This patch fixes the issue described above by adding the ptp_tx_lock to
    protect access to ptp_tx_skb and ptp_tx_start fields from igc_adapter.
    Since igc_xmit_frame_ring() called in atomic context by the networking
    stack, ptp_tx_lock is defined as a spinlock, and the irq safe variants
    of lock/unlock are used.
    
    With the introduction of the ptp_tx_lock, the __IGC_PTP_TX_IN_PROGRESS
    flag doesn't provide much of a use anymore so this patch gets rid of it.
    
    Fixes: 2c344ae2 ("igc: Add support for TX timestamping")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndre Guedes <andre.guedes@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarVinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com>
    Reviewed-by: Kurt Kanzenbach's avatarKurt Kanzenbach <kurt@linutronix.de>
    Tested-by: default avatarNaama Meir <naamax.meir@linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
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