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Re: [PATCH] ibmvnic: remove excessive irqsave

From: Christophe Leroy <hidden>
Date: 2021-03-05 05:49:38
Also in: linuxppc-dev, lkml


Le 05/03/2021 à 02:43, angkery a écrit :
From: Junlin Yang <redacted>

ibmvnic_remove locks multiple spinlocks while disabling interrupts:
spin_lock_irqsave(&adapter->state_lock, flags);
spin_lock_irqsave(&adapter->rwi_lock, flags);

there is no need for the second irqsave,since interrupts are disabled
at that point, so remove the second irqsave:
The problème is not that there is no need. The problem is a lot more serious:
As reported by coccinella, the second _irqsave() overwrites the value saved in 'flags' by the first 
_irqsave, therefore when the second _irqrestore comes, the value in 'flags' is not valid, the value 
saved by the first _irqsave has been lost. This likely leads to IRQs remaining disabled, which is 
_THE_ problem really.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
spin_lock_irqsave(&adapter->state_lock, flags);
spin_lock(&adapter->rwi_lock);

Generated by: ./scripts/coccinelle/locks/flags.cocci
./drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c:5413:1-18:
ERROR: nested lock+irqsave that reuses flags from line 5404.

Signed-off-by: Junlin Yang <redacted>
---
  drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c | 4 ++--
  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
index 2464c8a..a52668d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
@@ -5408,9 +5408,9 @@ static void ibmvnic_remove(struct vio_dev *dev)
  	 * after setting state, so __ibmvnic_reset() which is called
  	 * from the flush_work() below, can make progress.
  	 */
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&adapter->rwi_lock, flags);
+	spin_lock(&adapter->rwi_lock);
  	adapter->state = VNIC_REMOVING;
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&adapter->rwi_lock, flags);
+	spin_unlock(&adapter->rwi_lock);
  
  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&adapter->state_lock, flags);
  
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