[PATCH 5/6] gianfar: Fix race between gfar_error() and gfar_start_xmit()

Anton Vorontsov avorontsov at ru.mvista.com
Wed Nov 11 11:11:08 EST 2009


gfar_error() can arrive at the middle of gfar_start_xmit() processing,
and so it can trigger transfers of BDs that we don't yet expect to
be transmitted.

Fix this by locking the tx queues in gfar_error().

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov at ru.mvista.com>
---
 drivers/net/gianfar.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/gianfar.c b/drivers/net/gianfar.c
index a5b0038..fde430a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/gianfar.c
+++ b/drivers/net/gianfar.c
@@ -2943,14 +2943,22 @@ static irqreturn_t gfar_error(int irq, void *grp_id)
 		if (events & IEVENT_CRL)
 			dev->stats.tx_aborted_errors++;
 		if (events & IEVENT_XFUN) {
+			unsigned long flags;
+
 			if (netif_msg_tx_err(priv))
 				printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: TX FIFO underrun, "
 				       "packet dropped.\n", dev->name);
 			dev->stats.tx_dropped++;
 			priv->extra_stats.tx_underrun++;
 
+			local_irq_save(flags);
+			lock_tx_qs(priv);
+
 			/* Reactivate the Tx Queues */
 			gfar_write(&regs->tstat, gfargrp->tstat);
+
+			unlock_tx_qs(priv);
+			local_irq_restore(flags);
 		}
 		if (netif_msg_tx_err(priv))
 			printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: Transmit Error\n", dev->name);
-- 
1.6.3.3



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