RE: [BUG] ntb: Sleep in interrupt handling

[Allen Hubbe]

From: Jia-Ju Bai 
> According to ntb_transport.c, the driver may sleep in interrupt handling.
> The function call path is:
> ntb_transport_rxc_db (tasklet_init indicates it handles interrupt)
>    ntb_process_rxc
>      ntb_async_rx
>        ntb_async_rx_submit
>          schedule_timeout --> may sleep
> 
> This bug is found by my static analysis tool and my code review.
> I hope to fix it, but I do not have a good solution.

Thanks! There is a recovery path if ntb_async_tx_submit fails.  It will do the transmission with memcpy instead of dma.  So, rather than retry in ntb_async_tx_submit, just fail to the recovery path.  Basically, replace the whole for(retries) loop with just txd = prep();  Would you like to work on the patch?

> 
> Thanks,
> Jia-Ju Bai