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    net: ipa: only reset hashed tables when supported · e11ec2b8
    Alex Elder authored
    Last year, the code that manages GSI channel transactions switched
    from using spinlock-protected linked lists to using indexes into the
    ring buffer used for a channel.  Recently, Google reported seeing
    transaction reference count underflows occasionally during shutdown.
    
    Doug Anderson found a way to reproduce the issue reliably, and
    bisected the issue to the commit that eliminated the linked lists
    and the lock.  The root cause was ultimately determined to be
    related to unused transactions being committed as part of the modem
    shutdown cleanup activity.  Unused transactions are not normally
    expected (except in error cases).
    
    The modem uses some ranges of IPA-resident memory, and whenever it
    shuts down we zero those ranges.  In ipa_filter_reset_table() a
    transaction is allocated to zero modem filter table entries.  If
    hashing is not supported, hashed table memory should not be zeroed.
    But currently nothing prevents that, and the result is an unused
    transaction.  Something similar occurs when we zero routing table
    entries for the modem.
    
    By preventing any attempt to clear hashed tables when hashing is not
    supported, the reference count underflow is avoided in this case.
    
    Note that there likely remains an issue with properly freeing unused
    transactions (if they occur due to errors).  This patch addresses
    only the underflows that Google originally reported.
    
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 6.1.x
    Fixes: d338ae28 ("net: ipa: kill all other transaction lists")
    Tested-by: default avatarDouglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230724224055.1688854-1-elder@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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