Revision a8ceb5dbfde1092b466936bca0ff3be127ecf38e authored by Michael S. Tsirkin on 05 December 2017, 19:29:37 UTC, committed by David S. Miller on 11 December 2017, 15:52:23 UTC
Users of ptr_ring expect that it's safe to give the data structure a pointer and have it be available to consumers, but that actually requires an smb_wmb or a stronger barrier. In absence of such barriers and on architectures that reorder writes, consumer might read an un=initialized value from an skb pointer stored in the skb array. This was observed causing crashes. To fix, add memory barriers. The barrier we use is a wmb, the assumption being that producers do not need to read the value so we do not need to order these reads. Reported-by: George Cherian <george.cherian@cavium.com> Suggested-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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mksysmap
#!/bin/sh -x
# Based on the vmlinux file create the System.map file
# System.map is used by module-init tools and some debugging
# tools to retrieve the actual addresses of symbols in the kernel.
#
# Usage
# mksysmap vmlinux System.map
#####
# Generate System.map (actual filename passed as second argument)
# $NM produces the following output:
# f0081e80 T alloc_vfsmnt
# The second row specify the type of the symbol:
# A = Absolute
# B = Uninitialised data (.bss)
# C = Common symbol
# D = Initialised data
# G = Initialised data for small objects
# I = Indirect reference to another symbol
# N = Debugging symbol
# R = Read only
# S = Uninitialised data for small objects
# T = Text code symbol
# U = Undefined symbol
# V = Weak symbol
# W = Weak symbol
# Corresponding small letters are local symbols
# For System.map filter away:
# a - local absolute symbols
# U - undefined global symbols
# N - debugging symbols
# w - local weak symbols
# readprofile starts reading symbols when _stext is found, and
# continue until it finds a symbol which is not either of 'T', 't',
# 'W' or 'w'. __crc_ are 'A' and placed in the middle
# so we just ignore them to let readprofile continue to work.
# (At least sparc64 has __crc_ in the middle).
$NM -n $1 | grep -v '\( [aNUw] \)\|\(__crc_\)\|\( \$[adt]\)\|\( .L\)' > $2
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