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* [PATCH] tun: fix blocking read
@ 2019-02-23 11:53 Timur Celik
  2019-02-25  6:12 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Timur Celik @ 2019-02-23 11:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: davem; +Cc: netdev, linux-kernel, Timur Celik

This patch moves setting of the current state into the loop. Otherwise
the task may end up in a busy wait loop if none of the break conditions
are met.

Signed-off-by: Timur Celik <mail@timurcelik.de>
---
 drivers/net/tun.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index fed298c0cb39..d291762b9e9d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -2167,9 +2167,9 @@ static void *tun_ring_recv(struct tun_file *tfile, int noblock, int *err)
 	}
 
 	add_wait_queue(&tfile->wq.wait, &wait);
-	current->state = TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE;
 
 	while (1) {
+		set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
 		ptr = ptr_ring_consume(&tfile->tx_ring);
 		if (ptr)
 			break;
@@ -2185,7 +2185,7 @@ static void *tun_ring_recv(struct tun_file *tfile, int noblock, int *err)
 		schedule();
 	}
 
-	current->state = TASK_RUNNING;
+	set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
 	remove_wait_queue(&tfile->wq.wait, &wait);
 
 out:
-- 
2.20.1


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2019-02-23 11:53 [PATCH] tun: fix blocking read Timur Celik
2019-02-25  6:12 ` David Miller
2019-02-25 15:53   ` Eric Dumazet
2019-02-25 18:25     ` David Miller
2019-02-25 20:12       ` Timur Celik
2019-02-25 20:13       ` [PATCH] tun: remove unnecessary memory barrier Timur Celik
2019-02-25 20:15         ` Eric Dumazet
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