From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: stephen@networkplumber.org
Cc: baijiaju1990@gmail.com, mlindner@marvell.com,
shemminger@osdl.org, shemminger@linux-foundation.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] skge: a possible sleep-in-atomic bug in skge_remove
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 20:57:01 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171212.205701.569779668163323943.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171212102240.4a09cf9a@xeon-e3>
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 10:22:40 -0800
> On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 08:34:45 -0500 (EST)
> David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
>
>> From: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 16:38:12 +0800
>>
>> > According to drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/skge.c, the driver may sleep
>> > under a spinlock.
>> > The function call path is:
>> > skge_remove (acquire the spinlock)
>> > free_irq --> may sleep
>> >
>> > I do not find a good way to fix it, so I only report.
>> > This possible bug is found by my static analysis tool (DSAC) and
>> > checked by my code review.
>>
>> This was added by:
>>
>> commit a9e9fd7182332d0cf5f3e601df3e71dd431b70d7
>> Author: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
>> Date: Tue Sep 27 13:41:37 2011 -0400
>>
>> skge: handle irq better on single port card
>>
>> I think the free_irq() can be moved below the unlock.
>>
>> Stephen, please take a look.
>
> The IRQ was being free twice.
> How did you see it, I really doubt any multi-port SKGE cards
> still exist.
He sees it by reading the code, please take a look at this
and move the free_irq() out of the spin locked section since
it can sleep.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-13 2:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-12 8:38 [BUG] skge: a possible sleep-in-atomic bug in skge_remove Jia-Ju Bai
2017-12-12 13:34 ` David Miller
2017-12-12 18:22 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-12-13 1:57 ` David Miller [this message]
2017-12-13 5:18 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-12-13 7:42 ` Jia-Ju Bai
2017-12-13 16:50 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-12-14 3:06 ` Jia-Ju Bai
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