RE: [PATCH net-next 3/5] be2net: fix erx->rx_drops_no_frags wrap around

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From: Eric Dumazet [mailto:eric.dumazet@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 5:18 PM

Le lundi 22 août 2011 à 13:43 +0200, Eric Dumazet a écrit :

quoted

This adds a race for lockless SNMP readers (in be_get_stats64())

They can see the 32bit value going backward.

You have to be very careful to read the *acc once, and write it once.

The "write once" is the only requirement.

Something like :

u32 newval = hi(*acc) + val;

if (wrapped)
newval += 65536;
ACCESS_ONCE(*acc) = newval;

Eric,

I'm wondering why you'd need ACCESS_ONCE() here? Wouldn't using the temp variable (newval) as you suggested,
ensure that the reader doesn't see a half-baked value?