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Revision 7095c973453e56efa0903e863b59cd89c75e62dc authored by Florian Fainelli on 12 September 2017, 20:14:26 UTC, committed by David S. Miller on 15 September 2017, 21:24:10 UTC
We can enter a deadlock situation because there is no sufficient protection
when ndo_get_stats64() runs in process context to guard against RX or TX NAPI
contexts running in softirq, this can lead to the following lockdep splat and
actual deadlock was experienced as well with an iperf session in the background
and a while loop doing ifconfig + ethtool.

[    5.780350] ================================
[    5.784679] WARNING: inconsistent lock state
[    5.789011] 4.13.0-rc7-02179-g32fae27c725d #70 Not tainted
[    5.794561] --------------------------------
[    5.798890] inconsistent {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} -> {IN-SOFTIRQ-W} usage.
[    5.804971] swapper/0/0 [HC0[0]:SC1[1]:HE0:SE0] takes:
[    5.810175]  (&syncp->seq#2){+.?...}, at: [<c0768a28>] bcm_sysport_tx_reclaim+0x30/0x54
[    5.818327] {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} state was registered at:
[    5.823278]   bcm_sysport_get_stats64+0x17c/0x258
[    5.828053]   dev_get_stats+0x38/0xac
[    5.831776]   rtnl_fill_stats+0x30/0x118
[    5.835761]   rtnl_fill_ifinfo+0x538/0xe24
[    5.839921]   rtmsg_ifinfo_build_skb+0x6c/0xd8
[    5.844430]   rtmsg_ifinfo_event.part.5+0x14/0x44
[    5.849201]   rtmsg_ifinfo+0x20/0x28
[    5.852837]   register_netdevice+0x628/0x6b8
[    5.857171]   register_netdev+0x14/0x24
[    5.861051]   bcm_sysport_probe+0x30c/0x438
[    5.865280]   platform_drv_probe+0x50/0xb0
[    5.869418]   driver_probe_device+0x2e8/0x450
[    5.873817]   __driver_attach+0x104/0x120
[    5.877871]   bus_for_each_dev+0x7c/0xc0
[    5.881834]   bus_add_driver+0x1b0/0x270
[    5.885797]   driver_register+0x78/0xf4
[    5.889675]   do_one_initcall+0x54/0x190
[    5.893646]   kernel_init_freeable+0x144/0x1d0
[    5.898135]   kernel_init+0x8/0x110
[    5.901665]   ret_from_fork+0x14/0x2c
[    5.905363] irq event stamp: 24263
[    5.908804] hardirqs last  enabled at (24262): [<c08eecf0>] net_rx_action+0xc4/0x4e4
[    5.916624] hardirqs last disabled at (24263): [<c0a7da00>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x1c/0x98
[    5.925143] softirqs last  enabled at (24258): [<c022a7fc>] irq_enter+0x84/0x98
[    5.932524] softirqs last disabled at (24259): [<c022a918>] irq_exit+0x108/0x16c
[    5.939985]
[    5.939985] other info that might help us debug this:
[    5.946576]  Possible unsafe locking scenario:
[    5.946576]
[    5.952556]        CPU0
[    5.955031]        ----
[    5.957506]   lock(&syncp->seq#2);
[    5.960955]   <Interrupt>
[    5.963604]     lock(&syncp->seq#2);
[    5.967227]
[    5.967227]  *** DEADLOCK ***
[    5.967227]
[    5.973222] 1 lock held by swapper/0/0:
[    5.977092]  #0:  (&(&ring->lock)->rlock){..-...}, at: [<c0768a18>] bcm_sysport_tx_reclaim+0x20/0x54

So just remove the u64_stats_update_begin()/end() pair in ndo_get_stats64()
since it does not appear to be useful for anything. No inconsistency was
observed with either ifconfig or ethtool, global TX counts equal the sum of
per-queue TX counts on a 32-bit architecture.

Fixes: 10377ba7673d ("net: systemport: Support 64bit statistics")
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Tip revision: 7095c973453e56efa0903e863b59cd89c75e62dc authored by Florian Fainelli on 12 September 2017, 20:14:26 UTC
net: systemport: Fix 64-bit stats deadlock
Tip revision: 7095c97
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