Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] net: hisilicon: make hip04_tx_reclaim non-reentrant

[Jiangfeng Xiao]

On 2019/8/6 8:46, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Aug 2019 20:31:39 +0800, Jiangfeng Xiao wrote:
>> If hip04_tx_reclaim is interrupted while it is running
>> and then __napi_schedule continues to execute
>> hip04_rx_poll->hip04_tx_reclaim, reentrancy occurs
>> and oops is generated. So you need to mask the interrupt
>> during the hip04_tx_reclaim run.
> 
> Napi poll method for the same napi instance can't be run concurrently.
> Could you explain a little more what happens here?
> 
Because netif_napi_add(ndev, &priv->napi, hip04_rx_poll, NAPI_POLL_WEIGHT);
So hip04_rx_poll is a napi instance.
I did not say that hip04_rx_poll has reentered.
I am talking about the reentrant of hip04_tx_reclaim.


Pre-modification code:
static int hip04_rx_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
{
	[...]
	/* enable rx interrupt */
	writel_relaxed(priv->reg_inten, priv->base + PPE_INTEN);

	napi_complete_done(napi, rx);
done:
	/* clean up tx descriptors and start a new timer if necessary */
	tx_remaining = hip04_tx_reclaim(ndev, false);
	[...]
}
hip04_tx_reclaim is executed after "enable rx interrupt" and napi_complete_done.

If hip04_tx_reclaim is interrupted while it is running, and then
__irq_svc->gic_handle_irq->hip04_mac_interrupt->__napi_schedule->hip04_rx_poll->hip04_tx_reclaim


Also looking at hip04_tx_reclaim

static int hip04_tx_reclaim(struct net_device *ndev, bool force)
{
[1]     struct hip04_priv *priv = netdev_priv(ndev);
[2]     unsigned tx_tail = priv->tx_tail;
[3]	[...]
[4]	bytes_compl += priv->tx_skb[tx_tail]->len;
[5]	dev_kfree_skb(priv->tx_skb[tx_tail]);
[6]	priv->tx_skb[tx_tail] = NULL;
[7]	tx_tail = TX_NEXT(tx_tail);
[8]	[...]
[9]	priv->tx_tail = tx_tail;
}

An interrupt occurs if hip04_tx_reclaim just executes to the line 6,
priv->tx_skb[tx_tail] is NULL, and then
__irq_svc->gic_handle_irq->hip04_mac_interrupt->__napi_schedule->hip04_rx_poll->hip04_tx_reclaim

Then hip04_tx_reclaim will handle kernel NULL pointer dereference on line 4.
A reentrant occurs in hip04_tx_reclaim and oops is generated.





My commit is to execute hip04_tx_reclaim before "enable rx interrupt" and napi_complete_done.
Then hip04_tx_reclaim can also be protected by the napi poll method so that no reentry occurs.

thanks.