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igc: Fix race condition in PTP tx code

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Currently, the igc driver supports timestamping only one tx packet at a
time. During the transmission flow, the skb that requires hardware
timestamping is saved in adapter->ptp_tx_skb. Once hardware has the
timestamp, an interrupt is delivered, and adapter->ptp_tx_work is
scheduled. In igc_ptp_tx_work(), we read the timestamp register, update
adapter->ptp_tx_skb, and notify the network stack.

While the thread executing the transmission flow (the user process
running in kernel mode) and the thread executing ptp_tx_work don't
access adapter->ptp_tx_skb concurrently, there are two other places
where adapter->ptp_tx_skb is accessed: igc_ptp_tx_hang() and
igc_ptp_suspend().

igc_ptp_tx_hang() is executed by the adapter->watchdog_task worker
thread which runs periodically so it is possible we have two threads
accessing ptp_tx_skb at the same time. Consider the following scenario:
right after __IGC_PTP_TX_IN_PROGRESS is set in igc_xmit_frame_ring(),
igc_ptp_tx_hang() is executed. Since adapter->ptp_tx_start hasn't been
written yet, this is considered a timeout and adapter->ptp_tx_skb is
cleaned up.

This patch fixes the issue described above by adding the ptp_tx_lock to
protect access to ptp_tx_skb and ptp_tx_start fields from igc_adapter.
Since igc_xmit_frame_ring() called in atomic context by the networking
stack, ptp_tx_lock is defined as a spinlock, and the irq safe variants
of lock/unlock are used.

With the introduction of the ptp_tx_lock, the __IGC_PTP_TX_IN_PROGRESS
flag doesn't provide much of a use anymore so this patch gets rid of it.

Fixes: 2c344ae245 ("igc: Add support for TX timestamping")
Signed-off-by: Andre Guedes <andre.guedes@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Naama Meir <naamax.meir@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Vinicius Costa Gomes 2023-06-07 14:32:29 -07:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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