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Alex Elder authored
Jakub Kicinski pointed out a race condition in ipa_start_xmit() in a recently-accepted series of patches: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20210812195035.2816276-1-elder@linaro.org/ We are stopping the modem TX queue in that function if the power state is not active. We restart the TX queue again once hardware resume is complete. TX path Power Management ------- ---------------- pm_runtime_get(); no power Start resume Stop TX queue ... pm_runtime_put() Resume complete return NETDEV_TX_BUSY Start TX queue pm_runtime_get() Power present, transmit pm_runtime_put() (auto-suspend) The issue is that the power management (resume) activity and the network transmit activity can occur concurrently, and there's a chance the queue will be stopped *after* it has been started again. TX path Power Management ------- ---------------- Resume underway pm_runtime_get(); no power ... Resume complete Start TX queue Stop TX queue <-- No more transmits after this pm_runtime_put() return NETDEV_TX_BUSY We address this using a STARTED flag to indicate when the TX queue has been started from the resume path, and a spinlock to make the flag and queue updates happen atomically. TX path Power Management ------- ---------------- Resume underway pm_runtime_get(); no power Resume complete start TX queue \ If STARTED flag is *not* set: > atomic Stop TX queue set STARTED flag / pm_runtime_put() return NETDEV_TX_BUSY A second flag is used to address a different race that involves another path requesting power. TX path Other path Power Management ------- ---------- ---------------- pm_runtime_get_sync() Resume Start TX queue \ atomic Set STARTED flag / (do its thing) pm_runtime_put() (auto-suspend) pm_runtime_get() Mark delayed resume STARTED *is* set, so do *not* stop TX queue <-- Queue should be stopped here pm_runtime_put() return NETDEV_TX_BUSY Suspend done, resume Resume complete pm_runtime_get() Stop TX queue (STARTED is *not* set) Start TX queue \ atomic pm_runtime_put() Set STARTED flag / return NETDEV_TX_BUSY So a STOPPED flag is set in the transmit path when it has stopped the TX queue, and this pair of operations is also protected by the spinlock. The resume path only restarts the TX queue if the STOPPED flag is set. This case isn't a major problem, but it avoids the "non-trivial amount of useless work" done by the networking stack when NETDEV_TX_BUSY is returned. Fixes: 6b51f802 ("net: ipa: ensure hardware has power in ipa_start_xmit()") Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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