Re: [PATCH net] net: ps3_gelic_net: handle skb allocation failures
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Date: 2025-11-12 14:31:45
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On Wed, 12 Nov 2025 10:34:01 +0100 Florian Fuchs wrote:
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--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/toshiba/ps3_gelic_net.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/toshiba/ps3_gelic_net.c@@ -259,6 +259,7 @@ void gelic_card_down(struct gelic_card *card) mutex_lock(&card->updown_lock); if (atomic_dec_if_positive(&card->users) == 0) { pr_debug("%s: real do\n", __func__); + timer_delete_sync(&card->rx_oom_timer); napi_disable(&card->napi);I think the ordering here should be invertedI thought, that there might be a race condition in the inverted order like that napi gets re-enabled by the timer in between of the down: 1. napi_disable 2. rx_oom_timer runs and calls napi_schedule again 3. timer_delete_sync So the timer is deleted first, to prevent any possibility to run.
napi_disable() makes napi_schedule() a nop (it makes it look like it's already scheduled).
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TBH handling the OOM inside the Rx function seems a little fragile. What if there is a packet to Rx as we enter. I don't see any loop here it just replaces the used buffer..I am not sure, the handling needs to happen, when the skb allocation fails, and that happens in the rx function, right? I am open to better fitting fix position.
Purely from the structure of the code PoV it'd be cleaner if the alloc/refill was separate from the processing so we can call just that part. But looking closer I think the handling is fine as is. So I think just addressing the nits is fine for v2