[PATCH 5.4 221/348] net: sched: add barrier to ensure correct ordering for lockless qdisc

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Jul 12 2021 - 02:28:52 EST


From: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 89837eb4b2463c556a123437f242d6c2bc62ce81 ]

The spin_trylock() was assumed to contain the implicit
barrier needed to ensure the correct ordering between
STATE_MISSED setting/clearing and STATE_MISSED checking
in commit a90c57f2cedd ("net: sched: fix packet stuck
problem for lockless qdisc").

But it turns out that spin_trylock() only has load-acquire
semantic, for strongly-ordered system(like x86), the compiler
barrier implicitly contained in spin_trylock() seems enough
to ensure the correct ordering. But for weakly-orderly system
(like arm64), the store-release semantic is needed to ensure
the correct ordering as clear_bit() and test_bit() is store
operation, see queued_spin_lock().

So add the explicit barrier to ensure the correct ordering
for the above case.

Fixes: a90c57f2cedd ("net: sched: fix packet stuck problem for lockless qdisc")
Signed-off-by: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/net/sch_generic.h | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/net/sch_generic.h b/include/net/sch_generic.h
index 0852f3e51360..0cb0a4bcb544 100644
--- a/include/net/sch_generic.h
+++ b/include/net/sch_generic.h
@@ -160,6 +160,12 @@ static inline bool qdisc_run_begin(struct Qdisc *qdisc)
if (spin_trylock(&qdisc->seqlock))
goto nolock_empty;

+ /* Paired with smp_mb__after_atomic() to make sure
+ * STATE_MISSED checking is synchronized with clearing
+ * in pfifo_fast_dequeue().
+ */
+ smp_mb__before_atomic();
+
/* If the MISSED flag is set, it means other thread has
* set the MISSED flag before second spin_trylock(), so
* we can return false here to avoid multi cpus doing
@@ -177,6 +183,12 @@ static inline bool qdisc_run_begin(struct Qdisc *qdisc)
*/
set_bit(__QDISC_STATE_MISSED, &qdisc->state);

+ /* spin_trylock() only has load-acquire semantic, so use
+ * smp_mb__after_atomic() to ensure STATE_MISSED is set
+ * before doing the second spin_trylock().
+ */
+ smp_mb__after_atomic();
+
/* Retry again in case other CPU may not see the new flag
* after it releases the lock at the end of qdisc_run_end().
*/
--
2.30.2