[PATCH 4.14 039/110] net: ethernet: ti: cpsw: fix net watchdog timeout

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Mar 07 2018 - 15:09:39 EST


4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@xxxxxx>


[ Upstream commit 62f94c2101f35cd45775df00ba09bde77580e26a ]

It was discovered that simple program which indefinitely sends 200b UDP
packets and runs on TI AM574x SoC (SMP) under RT Kernel triggers network
watchdog timeout in TI CPSW driver (<6 hours run). The network watchdog
timeout is triggered due to race between cpsw_ndo_start_xmit() and
cpsw_tx_handler() [NAPI]

cpsw_ndo_start_xmit()
if (unlikely(!cpdma_check_free_tx_desc(txch))) {
txq = netdev_get_tx_queue(ndev, q_idx);
netif_tx_stop_queue(txq);

^^ as per [1] barier has to be used after set_bit() otherwise new value
might not be visible to other cpus
}

cpsw_tx_handler()
if (unlikely(netif_tx_queue_stopped(txq)))
netif_tx_wake_queue(txq);

and when it happens ndev TX queue became disabled forever while driver's HW
TX queue is empty.

Fix this, by adding smp_mb__after_atomic() after netif_tx_stop_queue()
calls and double check for free TX descriptors after stopping ndev TX queue
- if there are free TX descriptors wake up ndev TX queue.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/core-api/atomic_ops.html
Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@xxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw.c
@@ -1618,6 +1618,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t cpsw_ndo_start_xmit(s
q_idx = q_idx % cpsw->tx_ch_num;

txch = cpsw->txv[q_idx].ch;
+ txq = netdev_get_tx_queue(ndev, q_idx);
ret = cpsw_tx_packet_submit(priv, skb, txch);
if (unlikely(ret != 0)) {
cpsw_err(priv, tx_err, "desc submit failed\n");
@@ -1628,15 +1629,26 @@ static netdev_tx_t cpsw_ndo_start_xmit(s
* tell the kernel to stop sending us tx frames.
*/
if (unlikely(!cpdma_check_free_tx_desc(txch))) {
- txq = netdev_get_tx_queue(ndev, q_idx);
netif_tx_stop_queue(txq);
+
+ /* Barrier, so that stop_queue visible to other cpus */
+ smp_mb__after_atomic();
+
+ if (cpdma_check_free_tx_desc(txch))
+ netif_tx_wake_queue(txq);
}

return NETDEV_TX_OK;
fail:
ndev->stats.tx_dropped++;
- txq = netdev_get_tx_queue(ndev, skb_get_queue_mapping(skb));
netif_tx_stop_queue(txq);
+
+ /* Barrier, so that stop_queue visible to other cpus */
+ smp_mb__after_atomic();
+
+ if (cpdma_check_free_tx_desc(txch))
+ netif_tx_wake_queue(txq);
+
return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
}