Re: [PATCH 4.19 241/422] net: socionext: Fix two sleep-in-atomic-context bugs in ave_rxfifo_reset()

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu Nov 21 2019 - 15:21:45 EST


Hi!

> [ Upstream commit 0020f5c807ef67954d9210eea0ba17a6134cdf7d ]
>
> The driver may sleep with holding a spinlock.
> The function call paths (from bottom to top) in Linux-4.17 are:
>
> [FUNC] usleep_range
> drivers/net/ethernet/socionext/sni_ave.c, 892:
> usleep_range in ave_rxfifo_reset
> drivers/net/ethernet/socionext/sni_ave.c, 932:
> ave_rxfifo_reset in ave_irq_handler
>
> [FUNC] usleep_range
> drivers/net/ethernet/socionext/sni_ave.c, 888:
> usleep_range in ave_rxfifo_reset
> drivers/net/ethernet/socionext/sni_ave.c, 932:
> ave_rxfifo_reset in ave_irq_handler
>
> To fix these bugs, usleep_range() is replaced with udelay().

I don't believe this is serious enough for -stable, but more
importantly:

> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/socionext/sni_ave.c
> @@ -906,11 +906,11 @@ static void ave_rxfifo_reset(struct net_device *ndev)
>
> /* assert reset */
> writel(AVE_GRR_RXFFR, priv->base + AVE_GRR);
> - usleep_range(40, 50);
> + udelay(50);
>
> /* negate reset */
> writel(0, priv->base + AVE_GRR);
> - usleep_range(10, 20);
> + udelay(20);
>

udelay(40) / udelay(10) should be enough here.

Best regards,
Pavel
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