A malicious or buggy guest can leave its queue filled indefinitely, in which...
case qdisc start to queue packets for that VIF. If those packets came from an
another guest, it can block its slots and prevent shutdown. To avoid that, we
make sure the queue is drained in every 10 seconds.
diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c b/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
index 95fcd63..ce032f9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
@@ -114,6 +114,16 @@ static irqreturn_t xenvif_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id)
return IRQ_HANDLED;
}
+static void xenvif_wake_queue(unsigned long data)
+{
+ struct xenvif *vif = (struct xenvif *)data;
+
+ if (netif_queue_stopped(vif->dev)) {
+ netdev_err(vif->dev, "draining TX queue\n");
+ netif_wake_queue(vif->dev);
+ }
+}
+
static int xenvif_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
{
struct xenvif *vif = netdev_priv(dev);
@@ -143,8 +153,13 @@ static int xenvif_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
* then turn off the queue to give the ring a chance to
* drain.
*/
- if (!xenvif_rx_ring_slots_available(vif, min_slots_needed))
+ if (!xenvif_rx_ring_slots_available(vif, min_slots_needed)) {
+ vif->wake_queue.function = xenvif_wake_queue;
+ vif->wake_queue.data = (unsigned long)vif;
xenvif_stop_queue(vif);
+ mod_timer(&vif->wake_queue,
+ jiffies + rx_drain_timeout_jiffies);
+ }
skb_queue_tail(&vif->rx_queue, skb);
xenvif_kick_thread(vif);