Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH net V2] xen-netback: disable rogue vif in kthread context
From: David Vrabel <hidden>
Date: 2014-03-25 13:04:12
On 25/03/14 12:20, Wei Liu wrote:
When netback discovers frontend is sending malformed packet it will disables the interface which serves that frontend. However disabling a network interface involving taking a mutex which cannot be done in softirq context, so we need to defer this process to kthread context. This patch does the following: 1. introduce a flag to indicate the interface is disabled. 2. check that flag in TX path, don't do any work if it's true. 3. check that flag in RX path, turn off that interface if it's true. The reason to disable it in RX path is because RX uses kthread. After this change the behavior of netback is still consistent -- it won't do any TX work for a rogue frontend, and the interface will be eventually turned off.
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--- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c +++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c@@ -61,12 +61,23 @@ static int xenvif_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget) { struct xenvif *vif = container_of(napi, struct xenvif, napi); int work_done; + unsigned long flags; + + /* This vif is rogue, we pretend we've there is nothing to do + * for this vif to deschedule it from NAPI. But this interface + * will be turned off in thread context later. + */ + if (unlikely(vif->disabled)) { + local_irq_save(flags); + __napi_complete(napi); + local_irq_restore(flags);
Why isn't this napi_complete(napi) (which uses local_irq_save/restore() internally)? David