Patch "net: emac: Fix napi poll list corruption" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

Patch "net: emac: Fix napi poll list corruption" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    net: emac: Fix napi poll list corruption

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     net-emac-fix-napi-poll-list-corruption.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Thu Oct 19 14:05:19 CEST 2017
From: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 19:35:18 +0200
Subject: net: emac: Fix napi poll list corruption

From: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>


[ Upstream commit f55956065ec94e3e9371463d693a1029c4cc3007 ]

This patch is pretty much a carbon copy of
commit 3079c652141f ("caif: Fix napi poll list corruption")
with "caif" replaced by "emac".

The commit d75b1ade567f ("net: less interrupt masking in NAPI")
breaks emac.

It is now required that if the entire budget is consumed when poll
returns, the napi poll_list must remain empty.  However, like some
other drivers emac tries to do a last-ditch check and if there is
more work it will call napi_reschedule and then immediately process
some of this new work.  Should the entire budget be consumed while
processing such new work then we will violate the new caller
contract.

This patch fixes this by not touching any work when we reschedule
in emac.

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/mal.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/mal.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/mal.c
@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ static int mal_poll(struct napi_struct *
 	unsigned long flags;
 
 	MAL_DBG2(mal, "poll(%d)" NL, budget);
- again:
+
 	/* Process TX skbs */
 	list_for_each(l, &mal->poll_list) {
 		struct mal_commac *mc =
@@ -451,7 +451,6 @@ static int mal_poll(struct napi_struct *
 			spin_lock_irqsave(&mal->lock, flags);
 			mal_disable_eob_irq(mal);
 			spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mal->lock, flags);
-			goto again;
 		}
 		mc->ops->poll_tx(mc->dev);
 	}


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from chunkeey@googlemail.com are

queue-4.4/net-emac-fix-napi-poll-list-corruption.patch