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From: Aaron Hill <aa1ronham@gmail.com>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] net: mac80211: Disable preeemption when updating stat counters
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 11:41:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190927154102.GA117350@ArchLaptop> (raw)

The mac80211 subsystem maintains per-cpu stat counters for receive and
transmit operations. Previously, preemption was not disabled when
updating these counters. This creates a race condition where two cpus
could attempt to update the same counters using non-atomic operations.

This was causing a
'BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code'
message to be printed, along with a stacktrace. This was reported
in a few different places:

* https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg189992.html
* https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204127

This patch adds calls to preempt_disable() and preempt_enable()
surrounding the updating of the stat counters.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Hill <aa1ronham@gmail.com>
---
 net/mac80211/rx.c | 7 ++++++-
 net/mac80211/tx.c | 7 ++++++-
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
index 768d14c9a716..5ef0667151bf 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -34,12 +34,17 @@
 
 static inline void ieee80211_rx_stats(struct net_device *dev, u32 len)
 {
-	struct pcpu_sw_netstats *tstats = this_cpu_ptr(dev->tstats);
+	struct pcpu_sw_netstats *tstats;
+
+	// Disable preemption while updating per-cpu stats counters
+	preempt_disable();
+	tstats = this_cpu_ptr(dev->tstats);
 
 	u64_stats_update_begin(&tstats->syncp);
 	tstats->rx_packets++;
 	tstats->rx_bytes += len;
 	u64_stats_update_end(&tstats->syncp);
+	preempt_enable();
 }
 
 static u8 *ieee80211_get_bssid(struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr, size_t len,
diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c
index 1fa422782905..4cad3d741b6b 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -40,12 +40,17 @@
 
 static inline void ieee80211_tx_stats(struct net_device *dev, u32 len)
 {
-	struct pcpu_sw_netstats *tstats = this_cpu_ptr(dev->tstats);
+	struct pcpu_sw_netstats *tstats;
+
+	// Disable preemption while updating per-cpu stats counters
+	preempt_disable();
+	tstats = this_cpu_ptr(dev->tstats);
 
 	u64_stats_update_begin(&tstats->syncp);
 	tstats->tx_packets++;
 	tstats->tx_bytes += len;
 	u64_stats_update_end(&tstats->syncp);
+	preempt_enable();
 }
 
 static __le16 ieee80211_duration(struct ieee80211_tx_data *tx,
-- 
2.23.0


             reply	other threads:[~2019-09-27 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-27 15:41 Aaron Hill [this message]
2019-10-01 10:00 ` [PATCH] net: mac80211: Disable preeemption when updating stat counters Johannes Berg

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